Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cruel and Brutal...
Once again South Africa [June 28] and its cruel, brutal and archaic leaders have shown their true colors. Their riot control methods remind one of Australia's early days when in many areas the fashionable sport for the young bloods was to go out and shoot an aborigine. The harvest that Prime Minister Vorster will reap will be one of violence and death as blacks swarm through cities like Johannesburg, aided by Marxist countries whose ideology is able to breed, as it always has been able to, in poverty, misery and oppression...
...they can see themselves through Shange's eyes, black men are going to wince. They are portrayed as brutal con men and amorous double-dealers. A segment called "Dark Phrases," featuring Janet League, telescopes a black wom an's experience, and in a cruel tale of love and blood lust called "A Nite With Beau Willie Brown," Trazana Beverley brings the audience to a culminating gasp of agony. An altogether excellent cast not only dances but delivers lines with a revivalist fervor that might have inspired Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace...
...pace at the Point can be brutal. Reveille at 6:10 a.m., duties or study at 6:40 a.m., classes from 7:50 a.m. until 11:55 a.m., and on through the day at double time until taps at 11 p.m. For many exhausted cadets, the major recreation is sleeping. There is still some hazing at the Point, such as forcing plebes to know the number of lights in Cullun Hall (340) and the capacity of Luck Reservoir ("Seventy-eight million gallons, sir, when the water is flowing over the spillway"). But the sadistic practices of the past have been...
...system had to be created for the brutal suppression of dissent in the country. Suppression had to be systematic, otherwise it would not work. The CIA created Iran's secret police, the SAVAK...