Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reckless disregard for human life and basic freedoms on the part of the officials of Mississippi--unless checked by responsible Federal action--will lead to a racial explosion of terrifying proportions. As the blacks of that state become increasingly aware of their supposed rights, as the state becomes increasingly brutal in its suppression of those rights, and as the Federal Government continues steadfastly to ignore its responsibility to protect those rights, it seems to me in evitable that Mississippi Negroes should take it upon themselves to defend them. Blacks, like other men, hunger for the security and protection...
Books for Yakuts. In the days of the Czar, Russian Jews were periodically subject to brutal, bloody pogroms, but they could often escape suffering by fleeing Russia. The Soviet government forbids emigration and plans its persecutions in more subtle ways. Theoretically, Russian Judaism is permitted to preserve its own culture. But all 17 Yiddish theaters in Russia have been closed down, and only six books in Yiddish have been published since 1959-compared with 144 in one year alone for the 236,000 members of the obscure Yakut nation of Siberia...
Ipousteguy sculpts with a sure sense of balance and a sharp eye for basic paradoxes and brutal ironies, e.g., The Crab and the Bird which captures in one movement the rapport between crawling and flying. Fourteen black bronzes. Through April...
Dismissing U.S. and Soviet theories of massive annihilation as "highly improbable" unless "confirmed madmen" were in charge, Ailleret, a veteran infantryman, argues that it would take only a few nuclear strikes, "cleverly applied," to reduce the enemy to terror. Then, he reasons, "a rapid and brutal invasion by mechanized forces" would cause the enemy to "collapse through panic." Ailleret does not say flatly which side would panic first in such a war, but concludes confidently that victory would go to the government that is "capable of assuring the nation, through a sufficiently solid framework, of a stability that will permit...
...Hoods. This may have had some validity in the case of folk heroes like Jesse James and Billy the Kid, on whom the wide open plains imposed a certain gallantry. But in earlier days, when the West was still east of the Mississippi, the frontier spawned a group of brutal outlaws lauded in no song or story. They gouged out eyes, bit off noses, scalped, never robbed without murdering, casually shot women and children. They disposed of bodies by splitting them open, filling them with stones and dumping them in the river...