Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter, neurotic boy is as true as Salinger's. But Holden Caulfield had a caustically individual twist to his mind, and it was on an exploration of this mind that Salinger concentrated. Miller's book is focused not on Duke himself, but on the shockingly brutal existence that is natural to him. The book is too much the composite case history to be a really good novel, but it is powerful reporting and impressive pamphleteering against the savagery of slum life in a great city...
When his father gets a job as foreman at a distant cane plantation, he asks Tiger to come along as his assistant and timekeeper. They wind up in a hut at Five Rivers, where sugar cane is life and life is sugar cane. The laborers work under the brutal sun by day, pour rum down their parched throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read...
...Lack of Truth. From the start, investigation of the brutal slaughter at Hola seemed strangely halfhearted, often clouded by deceit and outright lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were...
...about its only distinction. The descendants of the first U.S. settlers formed a haughty aristocracy of "Americo-Liberians" who lived along a 40-mile stretch of the coast and kept the natives of the interior firmly in their place. As recently as 1931, there was a flourishing and brutal slave trade, run partly by the Vice President himself...
...four killers had something else in common: as children they had been exposed to unbridled violence between parents and other adults, as well as to frequent brutal whippings. And all had suffered emotionally from loss or separation of parents. As a result, argued Dr. Satten, they had become "predisposed to severe lapses in ego control," were incapable of counting to ten before acting, but lashed out impulsively and instantaneously...