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...system for repression is not as effective," Walder says. "They're forced to use brute force and military force. The old methods aren't working...
...interventions of Professors Davis and Patterson seek to run down what they cannot understand--a horrible example of academic thuggery. I suspect that tenure has not been given to Social Studies teachers for the brute reason that it is an undergraduate concentration. My own opinion is that the best way to remedy that is to expand one of the jewels in Harvard's crown...
John Steinbeck was haunted by the almost biblical travail of the Dust Bowl farmers, uprooted from their homesteads by bank foreclosures, trekking by the tens of thousands to the promised land of California, only to face brute exploitation as field hands. After two failed novels, he finally got it right on his third try, and after two years of developmental productions, Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe has finally succeeded in adapting his epic tale for the stage. The best measure of this portrait of a family in agony and dissolution is that it is actually better -- less sentimental and truer -- than...
...handsome time getting there, propelled by Curtis' sensible sensuality and Silver's bravura creepiness. These two help dramatize the danger any woman can find in the desperate intimacy of a big city. By the climax, Megan has to be thinking of Eugene and every other urban brute when she is again asked, "So what made you become...
...apply that principle at home and in Eastern Europe, where he attributed the stagnation of the economy and the discontent of the populace to "miscalculations by the ruling parties." The East European regimes had long taken it for granted that their Big Brothers in Moscow would provide the brute force that is the substitute for political legitimacy in the Marxist- Leninist system. Now all of a sudden, the No. 1 man in the Kremlin was saying he would not back them up and that they had to find a way of making a genuine social compact with their own people...