Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open sport shirt and a light linen jacket. Though only 35, he is a veteran Communist. Nine years in Fascist jails have shrunk his face, left his eyes deepset in sallow sockets. His line is conciliation: "If we Communists were in power in Italy today, we would not destroy private property. Private property has its function to fulfill in Italy for years & years to come...
...finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...
...Sauerbruch has been known to perform three operations at once: his assistants cut open the patients and Sauerbruch moved from table to table to make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...
There are a few surprising failures in a movie so generally well made. Sample: the sergeant and a suspect, hiding out from the law in an all-night movie house talk so loudly that they destroy the suspense. But most of Crossfire is a first-rate thriller, notably well written (by John Paxton) and directed (by Edward Dmytryk). Its chief weakness concerns its main theme...
...Writers should stick together like wolves or gypsies and they are fools to attack each other to please the people who would exploit or destroy them. Naturally I know the weaknesses of my fellow professionals but that information is not for sale nor for free...