Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist deceit" put the name of Gaetano Salvemini on a pressure telegram slamming American interference in the Italian elections, the Lauro do Bois Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization said yesterday...
...Democratic Front took as its emblem the head of Garibaldi, superimposed upon a five-pointed star. This week Christian Democrats distributed leaflets bearing their version of the new Communist emblem. The legend read: "Long live the Democratic Front? Turn it around and you will see the deceit...
...Whether the killing remained suspended or was mercifully at an end or was to be tragically revived, India was not to be singled out for condemnation or contempt. No nation had ever come into the world without bloodshed. In every process of hope, ambition, confused value, self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those...
Where Magic Town eventually gets gainfully out of order is in sounding its Note of Hope. Know-how, self-respect and daring are traditional American virtues, but this movie suggests that they can be aroused only by deceit and the pressure of public opinion...
...merely indifferent. The boys are locked in separate cells and come under new influences. Pasquale is tricked into informing; neither boy ever quite understands how they have been betrayed. The seraphically charming Pasquale dwindles into a corrupted, potential criminal. The stolid Giuseppe grows into a grave embodiment of vengeance. Deceit, bewilderment, loss of affection and of faith drive them to the edge of sanity. Finally Pasquale kills his friend. Over the dead body, he first begins to realize what he has done to his friend and to himself-and a little of what has been done to both of them...