Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small World. For the unforgiving, who cannot forget the Nazis' cruel conquests, there is savage irony in the fact that the Freedom Bell now rings out daily over the city that was the capital of Adolf Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich. But the Nazis never won a free election in Berlin, even failed to get a majority in the first municipal elections held there after Hitler came to power...
Eilshemius' muse was wayward, poetic, and in the end cruel. Critic Duncan Phillips notes that in one picture Eilshemius "symbolically depicted himself as adrift, all alone, in a fragile bark rushed along by the fierce currents of wild, rapid waters which swirl around an island under a witching moon. It is a symbol of all futility and frustration under the Tantalus of beauty and romance. It tells of his endless efforts to land on the island of desire...
...screenplay manages to connect the reporter who discovered Judd's glasses, his girl (Diane Varsi), and the homicidal pair. Artie urges Judd to assult the girl on a bird-watching date, and this crisis recreates the conflicts of the murder ("You're not that cruel, Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie...
Chronic Fear. The Poles, without Marshall Plan aid,* had little investment capital to put into the new area; they also had to pay cruel sums to the Russians. But above all, they had a chronic fear that the territories might become German again in some cold war East-West settlement (West Germany has publicly renounced the use of force to recover the area, but has not officially abandoned its designs...
...form of light makes Author Eliot bridle, the "cruel" light of "scientific restoration": "Major paintings are handed over to men in white smocks clutching scalpels and chemical swabs ... If there be fifty nailheads in a painted cask, they want to see all fifty. So they strip away . . . Hardly a single master has escaped intact, but Rembrandt appears to have suffered most of all, both in America and in Europe. His celebrated Night Watch at Amsterdam is now a Day Watch" Some other Eliot reflections...