Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amen's other self, the darker and deeper one, is best revealed by the large, dramatic print of Adam. In contrast to Michelangelo's noble idealization, this First Man is conceived as a brute. Above his diminutive head, which is dominated by a circle of teeth and a single, piggish eye, he raises a jagged sword. His free hand, meanwhile, hangs ape-like to his knees. Defined in bold line against a blank background, Adam makes a powerful and impressive figure...
...last five minutes when his team is only two touchdowns behind-any club can, and may, explode in those five minutes and win. Pro football is a game in which every carefully selected, battle-tried man seems larger than life, not only in skill and speed, but in sheer brute strength...
...actors outnumber the audience almost every night, but the show must go on. The hero pleads with the big Broadway producer to come down and catch his act, but the brute, who later confesses that he loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through...
...people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...less- the hearing, the share, the place granted them by the votes of the citizens. Why then should the odious strife and fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately through universal suffrage. With them, and for them, France will see to it that their choice...