Word: fiendishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shack Out on 101 (Broidy; Allied Artists) confronts the U.S. motorist-already reduced to a walleyed wreck by the massed assault of saturation traffic, maladjusted headlights, homicidal hitchhikers, kids on bikes, the hydramatic wheeze, small-town radar cops and the finance company - with a new and yet more fiendish horror of the highway: the Communist-controlled hamburger stand...
...Fiendish Scheme...
...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
Because we do not recognize the Chinese Communist government, every occasion on which we negotiate with it is regarded by our citizens as a humiliation, and in the Communist capitals as a source of fiendish satisfaction. Negotiations at Geneva concerning U.S. prisoners are being artificially dragged out by Peking's envoys merely to prolong the delight of seeing de facto recognition enforced on the "stubborn" Americans...
PERHAPS you've already seen these two newly published books at your bookstore -on different shelves. One is an exciting record of progress in modern science; the other a fiendish satire on modern man's loss of identity. What they have in common is that both are the work of TIME editors...