But he was also autocratic and occasionally brutal, ordering an extrajudicial killing spree against drug pushers that killed many innocents.
The familiar, if brutal, regional order is being replaced with something much more complicated.
By this, Kurzman means that Al Qaeda became a symbol of anti-imperialism, Islamic authenticity and a general thumbing of one's nose at the brutal political order in which so many Arabs and Muslims live.
The set, designed by Rebecca Ringst, leaves the Goodman stage bare save for a towering back wall suggesting a cage that the characters clamber up and down, seeking escape from the brutal social order of the town.
Shivering on the floor of the bathroom, as scary bugs crawl around him, he is drawn into an anguished recognition of the interior drives — and the brutal economic order — that have supported his obliviously contented, guilt-free existence.
But hers is a gentler approach than the one she experienced at M.I.T. "I've always disagreed that you have to be brutal in order to be rigorous," she said.
Critics of the policies – a noisy, sizeable, and growing minority – argue offshore processing ignores the human cost of a detention regime designed to be brutal in order to deter others.
He means to confirm what his son suspects: that the shocking stories in the news are not anomalous; that police abuse is just another manifestation of the violence that has afflicted black people in America ever since slavery; that officers who kill are not rogues but, rather, enforcers of a brutal social order.
His meticulous historicizing works in the case of hip-hop's well-documented inception during the mid-'70s: poverty and urban decay in places like the Bronx produced "an environment that had become comparable to the one in 'Lord of the Flies,' where children stranded on an island with no adult guidance create a new, brutal social order of their own".
To him, Russia's brutal social order paralleled the tyrannies of Elizabeth's England, and Kott's "cruel and true" portrait of Shakespeare became his "Bible", convincing him that Renaissance Verona and Elizabethan London "had in common sex and violence and were singularly close to another age: our own".
