Word: devours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Lions (20th Century-Fox). "And the sword shall devour thy young lions," wrote the prophet Nahum. His words, affixed in epigraph to Irwin Shaw's bestseller of 1948, seemed no more than intellectual makeweight in what proved to be a light package. But the film version of the novel, as conceived and produced by the late Al Lichtman (TIME, March 3), strikes deeper into human substance and rises more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive...
...that noisomely misanthropic symbols keep recurring in his work than that they nowhere seem purgative. With Swiftian ferocity he reveals a Swiftian tormented-ness; and as with Swift, however much he retches, he cannot disgorge.* More culpably, Williams' gift for theatricalism makes the how of Suddenly Last Summer devour the why, turns the horrifying means into an end in itself...
Instead, having survived Stalin and then become the first to denounce him, Mikoyan has to be careful not to let the repudiation of Stalin get out of hand: the desire for revenge could easily devour all those who served him. Mikoyan was in the Kremlin group that flew to Warsaw last fall to smash the insurgent Gomulka -and found themselves encircled in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace by Gomulka's forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took...
...turn-of-the-century London setting scarcely conformed to the modish social-protest patterns of the '30s. Social protest the book certainly is, but of an unsparing misanthropy that crosses all class lines. In a dimly lit nether world of total amorality, human sharks snap at and devour each other as instinctively as do their marine cousins on the ocean floor...
...born in Italy, the son of an English soprano and an Italian tenor, picked up an education in Switzerland and Portugal, became a British subject and a proper young businessman. But not for long. As soon as he could read, he had begun to devour history, and one day he left his proper job for the happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that...