Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Frances Skeffington, to whom the reader is introduced in her rose-colored bedroom on a foggy February morning, has been one of the great, the exquisite beauties of England. Her 20th birthday is now less than a month away. Totally unprepared to face this event, she has had brutal warning of it in the fact that her lovely hair is rapidly falling out. Worse, she keeps seeing...
Opening his speech there with a bitter condemnation of Germany's invasion of Norway and Denmark, he said, "The world is unhappy. I know I am after what happened 48 hours ago--it gives us all pause. We have seen a brutal invasion of a peace-minded people minding their own business...
...Brutal Buccaneer." That this war will be ruthless is to be expected of the man who organized the Nazi Secret Police and system of concentration camps, who coolly announced the shooting of Frau von Schleicher for resisting her ex-Chancellor husband's arrest, who, most people believe, plotted the firing of the Reichstag in 1933 and the subsequent purge of Communists. Göring himself has boasted of the sort of war it will be. Long before World War II began he said: "At one order, Hell would be turned loose on the enemy! With one quick blow destruction...
...frankness, which does not stoop to devious deceits. He credits Göring with intervening decisively for peace in 1938, thinks he would have done so in 1939 if he had dared risk Hitler's displeasure. Summing him up, Sir Nevile found him "a typical and brutal buccaneer; but he had certain attractive qualities; and I must frankly say that I had a real personal liking...
...covers of Baudclaire, many will claim that a play can not be great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away does the immensity of the stated truth begin to emerge. That is Miss Hellman's real message of hope. The brittle clearness of reality--the strength to examine life and admit some...