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Word: brutally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a mere 200 years of controversy, during which fagging has been stoutly defended by most old boys and criticized by sensitive souls like Poet Shelley and others as "brutal and degrading," Eton has decided to drop fagging. The practice will be banned as of July, when the current school term ends. The decision was taken by outgoing Headmaster Michael McCrum, 55, who explains: "I am not in favor of self-indulgence of this sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eton Bids Farewell to Fagging | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...Quincy House Film Society should never have decided to show Deep Throat. The film is "equally degrading to both men and women," as Judge Charles Alberti ruled Friday. The society chose to support the pornography industry--infamous for its brutal exploitation--to the tune of $375, money that could have purchased a more worthwhile movie...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Moral And Legal Issues | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

Both rape and porn are based on a view of men's sexuality as brutal and aggressive. To be a "real man" means being able to "slam it" to a woman. The equation of male sexuality with violence is also carried over into some male homosexual pornography...

Author: By Ilana Debare and Kris Manos, S | Title: The Business of Degradation: Women and Pornography | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

...students were dead and 16 had been wounded. Within an hour, Israeli soldiers clamped a curfew on Hebron, set up roadblocks around the town and scoured the area for the terrorists. At week's end a Palestinian commando group with headquarters in Damascus took responsibility for the brutal attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST BANK: Sabboth Havoc | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Under the protocols of the blood feud, one act of revenge begot another, so that violence originating in some forgotten crime or slight could reverberate for generations. Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion. When the state assumed the responsibility for punishing an offense, the matter, in theory, ended there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Temptations of Revenge | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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