Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near; When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise, When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes; When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...
...ideological row between Moscow and Peking grew shriller last week than any dispute ever overheard between states claiming to live in Marxist unity and solidarity. The comrades were not arguing about trivialities: the Chinese want Communism fast and by brute force; the Russians, having built up their industrial and armed might, want to proceed a bit cautiously...
...Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence has always had its hard underside; after all, the summit conference was precipitated in the first place by his threats to West Berlin. In Paris last week, Rodion Malinovsky was an overt reminder of the brute force that Russia's Communists command if they chose to turn tough. He was also the visible symbol of one of the forces that press upon Khrushchev...
...best rhetorician is a broad-sterned woman named Laura, who has had eight children by seven men. "Man, she like Shakespeare when it come to using words," says a man who is inexplicably called Hat. Tenderly, Laura gives her brood the rough side of her tongue: "Alwyn, you broadmouth brute, come here," and "Lorna, you black bowleg bitch, why you can't look what you doing...
...gazes in seraphic innocence at the motor of a stalled truck, '"is about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi brute, a priest struggles blindly to his feet, then firmly turns the other cheek. And even the most calcified tear duct will surely start to flow when Scenarist Presnell turns on the pathos-"What is your name?" a nun inquires of a tiny refugee who lifts her great dark eyes, surrounded by dark...