Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they felt less different themselves. Also, they enjoyed the humbling of a "father-figure," for many had troubles that traced back to their own fathers or other authoritarian figures. Best of all, characters in the play were able to act out their hostility to Father-Figure Queeg without feeling guilt...
Venture into Darkness is a thriller of betrayal and escape that only such an old China hand as Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China) could have fashioned. It is also a bold psychological study of an American obsessed with guilt over China's loss, and of a young Chinese who tears away from the world's most tenacious family ties to throw away his soul in the annihilating Communist State...
Playing an obvious game of guilt by association, he implied that all ex-Communist witnesses were lying. His special target: Elizabeth Bentley, whose testimony about Communist espionage is needed to convict the Silvermaster spy ring that she exposed...
...behind Black Rock's stranger hostility, but the cast and director John Sturges handle the tension of the situation with effective subtlety and restraint. Tracy, as a hard and embittered World War II cripple, conceals his own motivations from the townspeople just as they try desperately to hide their guilt from him. The strain builds up gradually to a series of explosive confrontations which equal any more violent movie in their excitement and match the rest of this picture in their plausibility...
...psychiatrist would disagree," said Dr. Nelken. Dr. Bellamy added that guilt feelings can be useful and, in fact, necessary: "The goal of psychiatric treatment is not to make people nonguilty. If it did, you would make the patient sicker than...