Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faiths joined in an Empire Sunday of Prayer (see p. 48). Accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King George and Queen Elizabeth attended services at Westminster Abbey to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury assure them that "it cannot be the will of God that a rule of brute force . . . should prevail on the earth." Catholic Cardinal Hinsley's more vitriolic sermon at Westminster Cathedral, proclaiming that "there cannot be peace until by God's aid this hideous system [Hitlerism] vanishes from the world," was interrupted by a middle-aged woman quoting Scripture: "My house shall be called...
...Washington, critics flocked to see them at close range, found Artist Sterne had taken The Struggle for Justice as a theme. (He first thought of painting The Triumph of Justice, "couldn't think of 20 instances.") No mellow optimist, Painter Sterne started Justice's trek at Brute Force, then let it struggle slowly forward through Greed, Cruelty, Intolerance, Superstition, False Witness, Scientific Evidence and Environment to an end in Red Tape...
...their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek, sometimes in silence, to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world cannot be rebuilt...
During his teens. Painter Karson started a muralitis epidemic in Chicago's financial district. A broker who specialized in utilities commissioned a mural for his customers' room, and Nat Karson gave him one symbolizing power, with a big muscle-bound brute in the middle. Other brokers quickly followed suit. Says Nat Karson: "The more muscles and machinery I painted, the better they liked it. ... When the crash came, they got demoralized and I got demuralized...