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Word: deus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving the greater concept--becomes clear to the heroine through a puzzling scene in which the deus ex machina descends with a thud to the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

...centers around the boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Woman in the Window" | 12/5/1944 | See Source »

...them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Clock | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Josephus and the Emperor takes the inevitable tragedy a step further, tells what happens when an antiSemitic, Romanizing Emperor, the Lord and God Domitian (Dominus ac Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Tragedy | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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