Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...last week's decision to send more U.S. troops to Germany (see above), Reuter's long campaign was beginning finally to bear fruit. But the Allied sense of urgency was still muffled by distrust of the Germans. Twice within a generation they had goose-stepped Europe, and the world, into war. Fellow Europeans had a saying: "The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet." Looking at the old enemy as a new friend, they could not help but ask: "The Germans to arms-again? And if not . . .?" The Western world was slowly coming...
...their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust of their ignorant, arrogant enemies, that most moviegoers will be delighted whenever another paleface bites the dust...
Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...edifice marked a large advance for the Music Department, which had been a sort of gypsy in the University, camping at one time in the chem labs and later on in the Bursar's office. Harvard had not been the world's most congenial patron for the art. Puritan distrust of music as a rootlet of evil lingered on throughout the 19th century: Francis Parkman was said to have ended his yearly budget report at the Corporation with "Musica Delenda Est." By 1914, however, most of this sinfulness seemed to have worn off, and music was looked on, at worst...