Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru Fights Back. In the New Delhi Parliament, while mobs paraded outside, Nehru declared the Portuguese action in Goa "brutal and uncivilized," but added: "We will not be forced or hustled into what we consider wrong action . . . The Portuguese are deliberately trying to provoke us." At a specially summoned meeting of the parliamentary parties, he denounced the riots, accused opposition parties, especially the Communists, of organizing the riots deliberately to discredit him. Next day in Parliament he apologized to all foreign missions and foreign firms who had suffered, offered full compensation...
...Piano (Rafael Druian, John Simms; Mercury). Written at Bartok's most dissonant period, in 1922, this rarely heard sonata bursts with haunting effects. It contains whole sections where adjacent notes sound sweet as a simple triad, others where the same kind of crowded combinations become strident and even brutal, and yet the whole mysterious piece works out as logically as a Haydn minuet. It is expertly played by the concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony and Pianist Simms...
Love & War. The new Goya glares with brutal clarity, like a wounded fighting bull, from the self-portrait made two years after his illness (see cut). It was at about this time that the Duchess of Alba took him on. As willful as she was lovely, the Duchess surrounded herself with the freaks, dwarfs and buffoons whom Goya loved to draw. They made a dramatic setting for her fragile, doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking...
...confidence based on facts, not promises." Two months ago he bought control of Casa blanca's Maroc-Presse, a lonely newspaper voice reviled by French extremists for espousing such views. In France's festering protectorate, where Arab hatred swells with despair, and French fear breeds demands for brutal repression, the middle is a dangerous place...
...sence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate in France. The plan was obvious: by provoking violence and silencing conciliators, the French counterterrorists hoped to prove that there was no other course but total repression, no other method but brutal force to snuff out Arab independence...