Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfair. We are all humans. A woman cannot call another woman sister without calling me brother. Forgive me this sentimentality; I grew up in the '60s. I believe we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all responsible for one another to some degree. The rampant and brutal indifference shown by some women to the plight of miserable or sick men depresses me. (I recall one professional panhandler, a woman, who said: "I'll always give money to another woman. We're in this together. I wouldn't give money to a man if his clothes were falling...
...Poor men. I can only speak from my experience, of course. I know there have been things, horrible things, which have never come near my protected life: brutal rape, wife-beating, job discrimination. Much of this has been corrected; still more will be taken care of if the E R A is passed, as I fervently hope. But we must have been emotionally raped; we are measured, above all, by our work; we are encouraged not to bond, neither to each other nor to women. We are desexualized, desensualized; neuter brains, success machines. We are not supposed to enjoy touch...
...Marine who was there during the invasion of Guam back in 1944, your picture of Agana in "Paradise with Rough Edges" brought back many memories, some brutal, sad and bloody, yet some very beautiful and unforgettable...
...South Africa's black majority, apartheid is a system of laws imposed arbitrarily by whites, and it is designed to crush blacks in spirit as well as to exploit their labor. In the end, the play suggests, apartheid manages to make the people who suffer under it as brutal as the laws themselves; by making every normal human need criminal, apartheid has created its own criminals...
...trouble began earlier this month when the West German weekly Der Spiegel published a 30-page manifesto issued by a group of underground dissenters in East Germany who called themselves the League of Democratic Communists of Germany. The document denounced the Soviet Union for "brutal exploitation and suppression" of East Germany. With bitter sarcasm, the anonymous authors called their country "a pathetic imitation of a Soviet Republic whose worst features have been reinforced by German thoroughness." Noting that Stalin had concentration camps even before Hitler, the manifesto charged that the "barbaric" Soviet system had since 1945 claimed "more victims...