Word: brutalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book is almost as coarse...
...ever before in its history. Last week economists suggested that the nation might not be able to endure the stresses & strains inherent in this high velocity performance. Talk like this was something to which the nation usually listened uneasily. Many a citizen remembered the Great Depression as a more brutal experience than the Great War. But in last week's shade-tree-and-hammock weather, nobody was willing to believe that things were going to blow up, either at home or abroad, the day after tomorrow...
...capable of blushing, has heard about the pot and the kettle; in any case, unsure pacing and thin delivery cause a lot of the wickedest haymakers against radio and money-love to land rather light. For all Actor Greenstreet's enthusiasm, Soap Sponsor Evans is so fantastically brutal that most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what a man can do to himself for the sake...
...city has 70% of its prewar plant capacity, 60% of its prewar population and 20% of its prewar housing. Up to a point, the Kremlin is right to concentrate on long-range reconstruction of industry rather than on immediate comforts, such as housing and consumer goods; but under the brutal 70-60-20 Stalingrad ratio, which puts men at least ten years behind machines, human beings do not and cannot work most effectively...
Hints of Great Enterprise. "What is generally understood by 'the Truman Doctrine' was never thoroughly popular in France. The doctrine seemed too brutal, even if logically brutal. It seemed to consecrate the ineptitude of the U.N. organization, and above all it seemed a negative policy. Le plan Marshall does not have these drawbacks for the French-this is something with a ring of nobility, a hint of great enterprise, something constructive which combines realism and humanism in a manner the French find irresistible...