Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox of man's freedom and finiteness is common to all great religions. But the Christian approach to the problem is unique, for it asserts that the crux of the problem is not man's finiteness-the qualities that make him one with the brute creation-but man's sin. It is not from the paradox that Christianity seeks to redeem man; it is from, the sin that arises from the paradox. It is man who seeks to redeem himself from the paradox. His efforts are the stuff of history. Hence history, despite man's goals...
...distinctly old-fashioned gangster, back from stir, to find that his onetime partners have become nightclub owners and won't cut him in. When he tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show...
...different ways it points up the limitations of language, of scholarship, of traditional science and religion, and gently but surely leads one to see that the history of civilization is but a special case of the history of a cosmos in which ideas can and sometimes do "persuade" the brute facts of life and experience to be harmonized, muted and ennobled. There is a faint but sure drive in things towards excellence which deserves to be encouraged, nursed, supported. We are civilized to the degree that we refuse to allow this bias forward excellence to be blocked by force...
...Brute Force (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International...
...back up his winning attitude, Big Jake has a winning service. He hits three types of serve-flat, slice, high-bounce-each with equal skill and confidence. His service never sizzles over the net with the brute force of Bob Falkenburg's cannonball smashes, but players agree that Kramer's is harder to handle, and he gets his share of service aces...