Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinkers developed the idea that organized Christianity is a kind of idolatry that has obscured the real message of the Gospel behind irrelevant and outdated cultural forms. And they follow closely in the footsteps of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi German martyr of World War II whose prison-cell writings speak of the need for the church to develop a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts," and of a secular world "come of age" that no longer finds God necessary as a hypothesis to explain the sun and stars or as an answer to man's anxiety...
They were kept for months in the total blackness of a dank cell in a Laotian mountain prison, their lacerated bare legs locked each night in crude wooden stocks, helpless to do anything more than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained...
Garbled Message. Dr. Fogh's most provocative finding: when PPLO infect human cells grown in test tubes, they destroy some cells, but-more significantly-alter the genetic material of others. They cause the development of deformed chromosomes, and even of entirely new chromosomes never seen in natural cells. Thus, their presence gives the cell a garbled genetic message so that it will produce abnormal daughter cells-a process sometimes observed in cancer. Neither Dr. Fogh nor anyone else is yet ready to say flatly that PPLO cause cancer, but since researchers have found the organisms in test-tube growths...
...Hamp, a young cobbler from Islington, the only survivor of his World War I platoon. He is a prisoner in a dugout cell, waiting to be tried for desertion, while outside rumble the guns of the Passchendaele offensive. Picking his way past a detail that is digging out a flooded latrine comes the officer assigned to defend the deserter: correct, unsmiling Captain Hargreaves...
...whole that gives the film its special authority: Director Losey's use of a bunch of privates as a kind of action chorus to comment on the development of the drama; his staging of a symbolic game of drunken blindman's buff in Hamp's cell before he is executed; the awful detail of Hamp's death, which underscores the movie's ruthless dissection of Britain's caste system...