Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists use guerrilla tactics, moving swiftly and attacking at night, hiding in villages and resting in the day time. . . . They are attempting to bring down the Government not by destroying its armed forces but by wrecking the economic life of the country. Hence, they do not hesitate to burn towns and villages, destroy railroads . . . and blow up industrial installations, such as power plants, which they cannot carry away...
Excellent acting keeps "The Druid Circle" amusing and alive. Leo G. Carroll succeeds in the difficult task of keeping a bitter and disillusioned old man sympathetic even when he tries to destroy the love of two young people. But the most spectacular playing last night was done by Ethel Griffies, in the role of the professor's mother. The part has little relation to the story, but the comedy of this ancient hypochondriac is almost worth the price of orchestra seats. The other actors fill in smoothly, except perhaps for the one playing the young girl in love, whose stylized...
Communists long ago observed a simple (but useful) political fact: the men who are capable of governing and guiding a nation are, even in big countries, a comparatively small group. Destroy them and you have decapitated a country; after that, any political gangster with a gun in his hand can rule the headless nation as he likes...
...trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
Author Morgan's villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...