Word: casebooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compulsion. Despite some debatable philosophy and psychiatry, Meyer Levin's casebook on the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder makes taut, adult melodrama...
Compulsion. Meyer Levin's bestselling casebook of "The Crime of the Century," the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924, makes a tense, intelligent melodrama...
Compulsion (Zanuck Productions; 20th Century-Fox) is a terse, tense, intelligent melodramatization of "the crime of the century": the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924. Richard Murphy's screenplay borrows many of its keenest scenes from Meyer Levin's Broadway version of his own bestselling casebook of the crime (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956), preserves in the film (103 minutes) all the essential details of the play (180 minutes), eliminates only a few of the far-out psychiatric references. One important addition: a taut sense of dramatic sequence...
...constituent assembly the granite will was none too evident. Instead of settling down to work on the constitutional reforms-mostly curbs on the executive power, designed to prevent another Perón-the delegates erupted in squabbles. The Intransigent Radicals, hot after the Peronista vote, provided a casebook example of the demagoguery that Aramburu deplored by denouncing the assembly's legality. The chairman clamped down on the tirade, and the 77-man Intransigent bloc stormed out of the hall. And the 75-man bloc of the People's Radicals were too split among themselves to assume their hoped...
Path to "Self-Sufficiency." Perón's take-over of the economy was a casebook example of dictator-knows-best fumbling. His goal was industrialization-nationalistic "self-sufficiency." The main tool was a state foreign-trading agency called (from its initials in Spanish) IAPI...