Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether all of Harlow's subtle maneuvers will be able to overcame the shear brutal power and overwhelming weight of experience which Oiell will be able to produce will be the issue this afternoon...
...Years Before The Mast--At the Paramount and Fenway. The famous Dana novel about life on shipboard, made into a long and brutal film. If you can stand more than an hour of South Sea cruelty on the high seas, you might be able to suffer this--but even discarding the brutality, it has lost most of the documentary qualities of the original in the rush for melodrama. Alan Ladd and Brian Donlevy star...
Americans flirting with fellow-travelerism should be required to sit through the Exeter's latest Russian film. They might think twice about Communism and the Soviet after an hour of the brutal mechanistic pageantry of "Russia on Parade...
...Molotov denounced U.S.-British "imperialists" as "new claimants to world domination," railed against "dollar democracy" and "money bags," charged (falsely) that the Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than Stalin's own brief answers. At week's end Molotov found it necessary to issue a remarkable statement to the Associated Press: "Your remark that...
...nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly, if we had been defeated ... we should have had some difficulty in justifying Hiroshima. . . . There needs to be a consistency between...