Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These brutal, insane and inhuman acts should make it the business of each and every one of us to see that all Germans and Japs in any way connected with perpetrating and executing these crimes be quickly brought to trial and shot. These pictures should allay the American misconception that the only German criminals are those in high places and that the mass of Germans are innocent, God-fearing people, victims of circumstances...
...been ruled by an authoritarian system in which, to assert and defend his status, a German bullies his inferiors, kowtows to his superiors. "The German alternately commands and scrapes." Unlike Americans and Englishmen, who consider it unsporting to exert their full strength against weaker opponents, Germans are traditionally most brutal and ruthless toward their inferiors. In their relations with other nations, they have been alternately arrogant and afflicted with a persecution complex, a condition resembling paranoia...
Common Ground (by Edward Chodorov; produced by Edward Choate). Playwright Chodorov is of value to the theater these days less for his gifts than for his guts. Knowing where reaction, repression and prejudice have led and can again lead the world, he exposes them with blunt, even brutal, words. Last season, in Decision, he slugged away at the menace of home-front fascism. In Common Ground he tests (a little late) the democratic spirit in the grip of Axis power. Democracy comes off better than the play...
...Tuesday the SS guards made their preparations. All day the prisoners moved weakly around their barracks or stretched restlessly in the hot April sunshine in the narrow gravel yard around their barracks. Among themselves they discussed all the possible fates the brutal Germans might be planning for them, talked of escape and what to do, but none of them did anything. Years of imprisonment had taken too heavy a toll of their capacity for action...
...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...