Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Professor Eckstein, 57, was busy observing the character of amoebas (brutal), the monogamy of pigeons (not onerous), and the troubles of blonde female canaries that seem to attract too many males...
Bebop to Ballet. At 66, Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky, if not the greatest living composer, is certainly the most influential. Since the violent rhythms, brutal harmonies and splashing tone colors of Firebird, Petrouchka and Rite of Spring first exploded on an astonished-and unprepared -world 35 years ago, Stravinsky has been imitated, consciously or unconsciously, by composers from bebop to ballet, from Russia to the redwoods...
Hatter's Castle (Paramount) is the beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary...
Cheesecake & Horse Operas. She rode a bus to San Francisco, gave herself a new name-Carole Landis-and got a job as a hula dancer in a cheap nightclub. She began the kind of swift and brutal education a boxer gets in the ring. She sang with a dance band. When she had saved $100 she went to Hollywood to court the cold-eyed janizaries of the motion-picture business...
...square resounded with one mighty "Ja!" Then & there the town meeting agreed to contribute four freight cars of grain, dried fish and fresh vegetables to be flown to Berlin. All over Western Germany, much the same thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead...