Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant, because of his size, his physique, and his apparent brute strength has always been a center of attraction. He has been glorified in the past through such stores as Paul Bunyan and John Henry. But in recent years, the influence of books like Budd Schulberg's "The Harder They Fall," has reduced the huge athlete to a much less glorified status...
...story holds pretty true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible...
...casual observer, the roaring bedlam in Ohio Stadium a fortnight ago was just another football game. To the Hearst papers' Bill Corum, it was a sociological phenomenon. Columnist Corum easily saw through the trickery of the T, the brute power of the single wing, and discovered the real difference between Michigan and Ohio State. Buckeye superiority, he decided, rested on an institution a good deal older than football: marriage...
...Until quite recently," Lindner told a Los Angeles audience, "the rebellion of youth could be viewed with the detachment usually accorded anything so common and natural. The brute fact of today is that our youth is no longer in rebellion, but in a condition of downright active and hostile mutiny. Within the memory of every living adult, a profound and terrifying change has overtaken adolescence...
...Cyprus' nationalism will become the effective mask for hiding a communistic drive to win the island. Although Moscow's party is legally outlawed, Cyprus officials admit that the crowing left-wing political group is a Communist working center. If Britain believes it can sit on Cyprus' feelings merely by brute force, it is forgetting the Suez and India...