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...went, bent against a harassing wind, the fine snow stinging his face. Reaching Massachusetts Avenue after what seemed an eternity, Mark turned toward Harvard. Confronted constantly by virgin drifts and a light crust insufficient to support his weight, the half-frozen professor forced his aching body forward by sheer brute strength...
Certainly Playwright Ibsen stood alone in An Enemy of the People, lashing out in all directions at every class and kind: at the moneybags for being corrupt, at the moderates for being corruptible, at the liberals for being fainthearted, at the mob for being brute-minded. As protest, An Enemy is frequently valid, though as playwriting it is too pat and contrived: the play is less interesting for its social protest than for its individualist scorn...
...ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man who could "save [society] from destruction." The best chapter in the Memoirs is devoted to the cunning, diplomacy and brute force employed by Napoleon in making quite sure that the inevitable occurred...
Love That Brute (20th Century-Fox) tries to duplicate the success of 1941's gangster comedy, Tall, Dark and Handsome. In fact, it gives screen credit to the scripters who wrote the original. The carbon copy seems too flimsy for 1950s moviegoing tastes...
...Brute force if from good sense removed cannot survive...