Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality, malice and ingenuity of aggression which our enemy displays we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver. I think no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a watchful, but at the same time steady...
Wrote the New York Times: "Aggression run mad . . . Germany's insanity . . . brutal . . . murder in cold blood...
...confronted with the spectacle of a war waged against all traditional forms of religion, and with a resurgence of brutal oppression and calculated horror to an extent unknown for centuries," O'Brien said, "some of us have become seriously disturbed by the activities of those leaders of public opinion who in increasing numbers are urging that these matters are no concern of the Americans, that expression of resentment are both futile and dangerous, and that any widespread discussion of these happenings might lead to dangerous states of emotion...
...moral frontiers are another matter. They must never be withdrawn and we must never appear to acquiesce in the action of those brutal powers which have brought much inhumanity into the civilized world...
...this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture. The figure of the agonized Christ, with hands and feet still showing the marks of crucifixion, is done in a forceful, brutal way, yet the entire group of figures, of which Christ is the foremost, is depicted by the artist as floating in the heavens upon a small field of clouds. The natural and the super natural are joined and with case, as in many of Raphacl's paintings, but in a blunt...