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...French Sovietologist Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "Andropov came to the KGB with a double mission: first, to rebuild an efficient police apparatus, and second, to transform it into a modern, effective instrument of the party. He succeeded on both counts." What the security operation lost in brute force it more than made up in political power under Andropov. In 1973, he was granted full membership on the Politburo, the Central Committee's ruling inner circle...
...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...
Bernard's friend Huey, on the other hand, was a suave, muscular brute. He was apolitical, insensitive, and preoccupied with sex. "If I had any respect for girls, I'd never make out," he once told Bernard. And he always got what he wanted by abusing urbane women tired of "meaningful relationships...
...unthinkable tragedies of Jewish history conspire with the radical vulnerability of Israel to enforce sometimes an aggressive and absolutist approach to life. In a warrior like Ariel Sharon, that morality hardens into a brute logic: the end justifies the means. It is a complicated and dangerous business when the People of the Book become also a People...
...M.I.T. Sociology Professor Sherry Turkle, an expert on the psychological impact of computer games: "The training could go two ways. It could have a numbing effect, making nuclear war more linkable, or it could heighten the revulsion. The computer is confronting us with something we tend to repress: the brute tact that we are playing with the survival of the planet...