Word: guilt
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...latest novel, Born 1925, begins in point of time where Testament left off. Hero Robert Carbury is a veteran of World War I whose sense of guilt (he won the Victoria Cross for killing Germans) leads him to pacificism and the ministry. His actress wife admires Robert but goes on loving her first husband, lost in the war. Their son and daughter, growing up in the foreshadow of a second war, find father's Christlike character dull. Son Adrian joins the army in a rebellious climax to years of boyhood revolt, but at the end, in the ruins...
...uneven job; notably, Gordon squeezes much less than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something of the misery of deceit is shown...
Beyond any shadow of doubt was one fact: that documents* had been systematically stolen from the State Department. By whom? And for how long? Over & above the questions of Chambers' truthfulness and Hiss's innocence or guilt loomed the still dark answers to these larger questions...
...history is based on precisely the kind of Freudian detective work which the book avoided. The writers decided that Virginia Cunningham was a schizophrenic,* suffering from the most common of the serious mental diseases. As the cause of her difficulties, they chose inadequate parents, who burdened her with a guilt complex plus a father fixation. The case history, revealed in a series of flashbacks throughout the picture, includes familiar items: a little girl who loves her father but feels rejected by him, a broken doll identified with Daddy, a husband whom the heroine cannot love because of the lingering subconscious...
This clears up the question of guilt. Responsibility, however, is an other matter, and the fact that last spring's YRC leaders helped to get Fisher, as a Young Republican, into NSA, places some of the responsibility on the Club. This point is not so tenuous as it may seem. Fisher is conspicuously unsophisticated when it comes to politics--this is an other of the points that became clear last night--and the YRC must have known that in an important position, he might become subject to curious influences. Yet the YRC informed all its members that Fisher would...