Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week The Razor spoke more sharply. To the League for Support of the Throne, Tojo reported that Aleutian occupations had "greatly strengthened Japan's position." "Japan," he said, "is determined to destroy the United States and Britain...
...more difficult the task of those who are fighting for the preservation of human freedom. There is no surer way for men and for nations to show themselves worthy of liberty than to fight for its preservation, in any way that is open to them, against those who would destroy...
...proposed plan would destroy a system of wasteful competition. It would destroy the worst feature of inter-House relations. If by eliminating a wild scramble for bands the Inter House Dance Committee is destroying "autonomy," that kind of autonomy should be destroyed...
...same new discoveries in photography are used throughout this new movie with no additions. Scenes are played both in semi-darkness and in complete darkness. The actors walk through so many shadows that one feels as though he were seeing Superman walk through walls. Shadows become too real and destroy the mood they were supposed to create. In contrast, light, when used, is too concentrated and too brilliant. There is no reality of illumination, and this alone is the source of the picture's weaknesses...
...plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like Kane, but for variation the audience is assured that bitter experience has made a better man out of the last of the Ambersons...