Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brutal, brilliant battle scenes dominate the action. Preëminent in the cast is Louis Wolheim as Kat. Best shot: Raymond Griffith (silk hat comedian) as the bloody, bearded French poilu stabbed to death in a shell hole...
...these were killed-and this was TIME's major point: namely that the period ot savage Russian atrocities has passed. In his telegram to TIME Father Walsh admitted this fact, when he agreed that in Russia the anti-religious activities of the Government have "passed from legal brutality to brutal legality...
Magnificently gaunt last week was Stokowski's translation of Stravinsky's primitive, pornographic music - music which in its finale is tremendous enough truly to suggest an upheaval of the brutal earth. Lean, sallow Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that...
...Very simply for. such an astounding creature. I shall state in my billing: 'Biggest born beast of the briny. Bearded. Booms like a bittern. Brutal beak. Bulkiest behemoth believable...
Privately Father Walsh agreed last week that the cartoon, to which his pamphlet ascribed no date, actually appeared in Soviet Russia seven years ago. He agreed that since then there have been "modifications of the [Soviet] method, which has passed from legal brutality to brutal legality"?i. e. Soviet law is now enforced with iron strictness, but Soviet law no longer countenances savage acts. Father Walsh further agreed that most of the Soviet atrocities and murders of priests described in his pamphlet (nearly all without dates) occurred prior to 1923, and some as early as 1919, when the present...