Word: brutes
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...farm would weaken the moral fabric of the nation. And then-there's politics. The farm population has been declining for many decades, but farmers still make up a substantial enough minority in many states that legislators are wary of offending the farm vote. Finally, there is the brute fact of overproduction: the current output of several major crops in the U.S. far exceeds the marketplace demand for those crops. Even if the Government could somehow bring itself to regard the farm situation with cold and fearless eyes, it would still have to deal with this fact of overproduction...
...stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art paraded four other finalists: Ralph Votapek, who gracefully turned the willowy phrases of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4; Bela Szilagi, whose Brahms and Liszt were played with cohesive intensity; Marilyn Neeley, a petite brunette who mastered the pyrotechnics of Tchaikovsky with brute female strength; and Stephen Manes, whose forte is clarity...
...comes to Cambridge with a pretty impressive club. They are 6-1 for the year, and their team batting average of .291 indicates they have a fairly explosive line-up. Team fielding and pitching aren't quite as remarkable, but Navy apparently believes, as do the Yankees, that sheer brute force can go a long...
...While the detective tails the villain, the villain tails the hero and his family - and skillfully accelerates the terror. He licks his lips over the hero's wife, and one day the lawyer catches him ogling his twelve-year-old daughter. Appalled, the lawyer tries to buy the brute off. Nothing doing...
...pretty tough business. If you get too juvenile people won't realize that you are trying to be satiric. If the music shows too much imagnation, you fail to capture the essence of rock, which is an uncanny tedium of the same basic sounds welded together by brute rhythm. But satire is possible, if you take into account the basic schools of rock 'n roll thought and try to plan your work within one of the several important traditions in the form...