Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room, they slowly give the widow enough money to save her husband's body from the medical students and give it proper burial. Soon after that there comes the glorious love duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now." This idyllic scene between Porgy and Bess contrasts sharply with the brutal savage love scene as Crown, in hiding in the swamps, finds Bess separated from a picnic party and forces her to stay with him for the night. Further tragedy comes as a hurricane strikes suddenly and the women gather to wail and pray for their...
...hero of this exciting novel is not human. Its hero is a storm. This storm lived twelve days. It became as large, before it was done, as the U.S. Its snows and rains and brutal airs brought death directly to 14 people, indirectly to hundreds; destroyed billions of locust eggs and averted a plague; ended a drought, flooded a valley, threatened the city of Sacramento; endangered an airplane, stalled a crack train. Before it died it gave birth to another storm which, in its ripeness, did spectacular work in New York City. In its birth, its life, its reproduction...
...school where the food was scanty, his room an unheated garret. No longer free, he could no longer endure solitude. In the end he was horribly captured by a crazy old brothel madam who conceived for him a pure, discarnate love, and he died a clinically brutal death...
...eyes of General Wood, chairman of America First, the play was as brutal as a realistic melodrama, without elevation, without adventure, with all the characters, from the leading man on down, dominated by motives of hard self-interest...
...poignant tragedy of this picture since "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...