Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three "A"s. Dutch women were not molested. Despite incidents of Jap arrogance, the treatment of the white population was, on the whole, not brutal. Jap soldiers put on a humble, even shy manner, saluting and grinning at the whites and asking favors with a "sorry" or a "please." Ruthless brutality was saved for the native Javanese...
National Socialism grew to brutal manhood on appeasement's food. Hitler's Enabling Act had passed in 1933 because the Catholic Center Party voted for it, thinking that Hitlerism would run its brief course to ruin if left alone. Said a local Social Democratic leader whom Authors Weyl and Jansen call Kurt Riemann: "If we stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense...
From this may not come a new Harvard. There will probably be no brutal reaction against traditional lines; there will surely be no changes as bluntly radical as Princeton's one-course cram program. What seems assured is a remolding of lines, a reappraisal of ideas and accepted customs, perhaps even a constructive study of the very roots of higher educations...
...Hirohito: 'As Emperor and leader of traitorous and brutal Japan during the years of her foul attacks on peaceful peoples, your time is short.' "To Tojo: 'When you unleashed your cowardly attack on Dec. 7, you started something you can't finish.' "To Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Fleet, who predicted that he would make peace in the White House (see p. 60): 'You will be present at the peace if you are still alive. That peace will be in the White House, but the White House will not be as you en visaged...
...With brutal frankness Tennessee Johnson scans the faces of the people's representatives in Congress: mean faces, scheming faces, corrupt, stupid, generous, brave and honest faces-the composite face of democracy. To make such an intangible dramatic and occasionally even tangible is no mean achievement. Director Dieterle's split-second direction is partly responsible, but chief credit goes to Actors Barrymore and Heflin. As fanatical, silver-tongued Thaddeus Stevens, Lionel Barrymore gives one of the best performances of his long career. Van Heflin's job is a brilliant tour de force. A veteran of second-rate Hollywood...