Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also a Floor Show. Outside the drab Palace of Justice, the citizens of ancient Nürnberg expended little thought or care on their former leaders. Once, in this very town, they had cheered them year after year with apoplectic fervor. Now, one of them said: "The trials? Na ja. Of course criminals should be brought to trial. It isn't the fault of us poor people." Said another: "You accuse them of making war. Are you not preparing new wars...
Week after week, in his weekly Uomo Qualunque (TIME, Sept. 24), Editor Giannini proclaims the word with rising fervor. "It is my son's loss [in the war] that makes me hate politicians' interference. From my sorrow was born the idea of Uomo Qualunque. Bereaved fathers will always understand each other if politicians do not interfere." Uomo Qualunque's circulation rose on this rhetoric to 800,000, Italy's highest...
Amidst the fine fervor and high purposes of the meeting, the 43 delegations could not fail to be aware of a 44th. Russia, apparently quite satisfied with its answer to the problems and not interested in hearing anyone else's, sent no delegation...
Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song...
Such a large and complex undertaking could hardly hope to have the extraordinary intensity of shorter, more single-focused films like San Pietro and Tarawa. But it is made, all the same, with force and fervor and intelligence. It is the richest single record of the war and one of its greatest pictures...