Word: brutishness
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...ultimate in human degradation. There the six-square-mile, barbed-wire enclosure in the heart of a rich agricultural center has been a hell on earth for 60,000 men, women & children of a dozen different nationalities who were being gradually starved to death by SS guards under a brutish, pigeyed leader, Captain Kramer. During the month of March, 17,000 people died of starvation, and they still die at the rate of 300 to 350 every 24 hours, far beyond the help of the British authorities, who are doing all possible to save as many as still have strength...
Seen awhile back as the brattish younger sister in "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," Diana Lynn has been doing leg exercises, and turns up very well as a not-so-brutish younger sister who can rally sing and play the piano. The girl ought to go far. Mimi Chandler seems to have been inserted solely to differentiate the Angels four from the many feminine tri-vocal ensembles. No other reason is apparent...
There Is Worse. . . . Prisoner interviews indicated that most of the soldiers fighting for Germany were not so much hired mercenaries as men under compulsion. For them it was fight-or die in labor battalions and prison camps. Many seemed brutish peasants, long trained as soldiers, used to obeying orders. Foreign elements were estimated at 15% to 20% of the German Army...
...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...
...thinks it was left to our century to do this job. He is not too sure it will succeed: "the possibilities which Henry Adams foresaw seem likely to come true all at once; cynical pessimism among the leaders of mankind; a vast revival of semi-religious superstition; a brutish dictatorship by capital or labor. . . . But the difficulty of the task should only spur our efforts in the one realm which we have under some sort of immediate control: our minds...