Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...
This technique sent German armies forward in unbroken masses, won advances by brute weight. It answered the question which had puzzled Washington and London: Was there really a Red defense-in-depth, and, if so, how had the Nazis advanced 190 miles in 19 days? The Red Army did have deep defenses, but they were designed to halt German forces of the kind which invaded Russia last year. Against this new offense, the Red Army now had to organize a new defense...
...infantry. Thus, while the German pace may be slow, it is calculated to keep concentrated columns intact, always with enough strength to protect themselves from the surrounding Russians. At Kharkov these tactics worked so well that Moscow had to admit a continued Nazi advance. At Sevastopol the Germans' brute concentration of men & metal brought that fortress to the verge of collapse in 16 days...
...there is an added significance in the preservation of the humane tradition. The values for which that tradition stands are the values for which we are fighting. Without them our war effort becomes a brute struggle for existence, and the prospects for the world after the war are grim indeed. And "preservation" does not imply a resurrection of the status quo. Rather it means holding on to the tools with which we can undertake the tremendous task of post-war reconstruction...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...