Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is also manifest in the domain of sex education, where our negativism is notorious. We start early to speak obscurely of sexual prohibitions but impart very little legitimate positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother...
...Brute Force (Universal), a Mark Hellinger production, stars Burt Lancaster, but is not otherwise to be compared with Hellinger's The Killers. The Killers may have been hammy, but it was grade-A ham, so adroitly served up that the picture got on several of last year's ten-best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose...
...down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back and forth some, he hasn't slipped yet and may live as long as one of Ringling's elephants. These last, by the way, are the biggest thing of the evening, but with Wizards of the Wire, Emissaries of Brute Erudition and a Glittering Galaxy of Fairyland Folk to choose from, there should be something for anyone. Unless, of course, he's looking for a Message...
...Tories strained to take it out on Socialism. In the House of Commons Winston Churchill flashed some of his old form and fire: "The brute fact is that Socialism means mismanagement ... incompetence. . . . Let us hope the nation will realize from this flagrant example the downward stairway upon which they are now thrust and down which they have descended only the first few steps...
Unlike Saint Joan, Chantal repels her inquisitors. Like Saint Joan, she cannot protect herself against brute force, and her murder by her father's tormented chauffeur (to whom the spectacle of innocence is intolerable) brings the book to a bloody...