Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words: Art Carney. Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...
...last we see Nehru in his true colors. Never giving a frank and definite response to questions, Nehru proved a master at evading questions on TV during his recent visit to this country. How fitting that this champion pussyfooter got up sufficient nerve to use brute force against those gentle, timid people in Goa who have lived in their country just 400 years...
...what of brute, locked up with the rest? The answer is that Thurber considered himself, half correctly, a rough, bruising satirist. "I am in a corner without being backed there," he wrote, "and I often come out fighting." To be thought a nice, lovable old character must have been as hard to endure as the slow onset of blindness. He bore both afflictions with dignity...
...firing of Sputnik I, the U.S. has been handicapped by rockets with far less thrust than the Russian models. Forced to work with small payloads, the U.S. skillfully miniaturized instruments, gathered a library of data from space, and prided itself on the "sophistication" of its equipment. But the big, brute-power feats belonged almost exclusively to the U.S.S.R. The rockets that orbited the two Russian astronauts earlier this year had developed an estimated 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust. At the time, the most powerful U.S. rocket in operation was the 400,000-lb. Atlas...
...Power-brute power-is the basic weapon of Communism. When the cold war going gets really tough, the Communists shove aside all their books of theory, all their piously professed concern for mankind. They fall back on force and fear, as they did in beating down the East Berlin riots in 1953 and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted...