Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter is submitted as a means of protest against the United States involvement in the recent Congo tragedies. The press in this country has focused much attention on the inhumane torture and execution of white hostages by the rebels. To a lesser extent it has also mentioned the large scale slaughter by the rebels of native Congolese loyal to the central government. Both equally deserve complete condemnation...
...Rumanian writer and well-placed party intellectual, plotting escape to the West and caught up in the reptilian intrigues that are the implacable condition of life near the top of one-party dictatorships. But the central character is a friend of his, Sebastian lonescu, whose life provides a large-scale map of all the circles of Iron Curtain hell...
...what was once one of the world's most powerful economies -and now is one of its most troubled? There are no great secrets about the failure of the British economy to meet its challenges: its root troubles lie in listless management, the wasteful use of labor, small-scale and inefficient production and indifferent salesmanship. At the heart of these manifestations is less of an inherent economic weakness than a national attitude of insularity, a stubborn refusal from top to bottom to believe that Britain's standard of living-and its standing in a prospering world -depends...
...kick and stomp on Karolis. Directed with nightmarish brilliance by Leo Garen, the play moves like a street-gang rumble. Even mock games with rolls of toilet paper seem to crackle with terroristic menace. The Negroes spew the vilest of obscenities at Karolis and each other. On any absolute scale, the dialogue is air pollution of the highest scatological and pornographic density ever recorded on a U.S. stage. Relative to the play, it is an act of verbal violence, matching and intensifying the drama's physical violence. Just before the play ends, Foots cradles Karolis in his arms...
Though it ended months before the Atomic Age began, the Russo-German portion of World War II was in almost every way a conflict on a thermonuclear scale. Upwards of 20 million Russian civilians and soldiers lost their lives. Over 3,000,000 German soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. The U.S.S.R. lost over 60% of its coal production; total industrial output declined by one-half. Whole cities were heroes: the Battle of Stalingrad lasted seven months with as many as 40,000 people killed in one day, while the siege of Leningrad went on for 21 years and killed...