Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking refuge from his acts in the fond belief that he acted "for his family." But his acquaintances give him credit only for being more "clever" than his partner who went to jail, and his own son deserts him as soon as he is convinced of his father's guilt. His wife Kate, played by Mady Christians, seeks refuge from her husband's acts in the firm conviction that Larry is still alive, until his letter convinces her that she has no hope. Her characterization is a strong one, stronger than Robinson's, possibly because her scenes are less flossy...
...Sons" is hardly escapist fare. Watching the defense of a man break down under the weight of his own guilt is more conducive to morbid fascination than to light-hearted pleasure. The players approach their task with all due reverence for its theme...
...heard happily in the halls of the Kremlin. With rehearsed righteousness, a picture would be drawn of the West appearing before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce the guilt of the West. Europe's hopes of peace, two years ago kidnaped by the Kremlin, would be offered for ransom -cut rate. A special sale, possibly advertised with the promise that the Cominform was selling its whole stock, again going out of business...
Last January, the New Republic had printed an article about Hill by Wallace Stegner, professor of English at Stanford University. It concluded: "Hill . . . was probably guilty of the crime [a coldblooded killing of two men] though I think the State of Utah hardly proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
Europe's guilt is more complex, more subtly expressed, and more easily abused. Its burden is the burden of Western man's whole failure to make more of his life and his world than he has so far made. It rests with especial weight upon the conscience of Europe, because it is here that Western civilization has come to visible and extreme; catastrophe. Europeans may tell themselves, as they do, that the younger peoples of the American hemisphere share the failure. But it is to European eyes that the ruin of Berlin, the chaste and ordered scars...