Word: bogeyman
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Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
...what of the Russians, the bogeyman of all European planning? Over his yoghurt Monnet smiles confidently. "I believe we often think too much about Russia . . . The day may come when we will get a look inside there, and find out that there is not really so much as we had thought...
...situation as their excuse. If many upperclassmen left college freshmen might have to fill the vacant spaces in the Houses making liberal room permissions unwise. But few men entered the armed forces over the summer, and there is no longer any basis for using the crisis situation as a bogeyman to block a change in the rules...
After nearly a century and a half of peace along the border, Canadians had long since banished any fears they ever had about annexation to the U.S. Last week the bogeyman reappeared in another, more insidious form. Thoughtful Canadians were pondering the 517-page report of the Royal Commission on National Development of the Arts, Letters and Sciences; in it they read a warning that U.S. films, radio programs, books and magazines are steadily shaping Canada in the U.S. image and that cultural, if not political, annexation is a real threat. Said the report: "We must not be blind...
Said Douglas: "We deal here with speech alone, not with speech plus acts of sabotage or unlawful conduct." He went on to ridicule the notion of a clear and present danger from U.S. Reds: "Communism in the world scene is no bogeyman; but Communists as a political faction or party in this country plainly is." U.S. Communists, he said, are "merchants of unwanted ideas...