Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admittedly, one is free enough to say the hell with the darker regions. The Third Man is mostly about Vienna, about a postwar Vienna that has been bornbed, divided into zones of occupation, and infected (as it is still) with espionage agents and black marketeers. In spite of things that endure, like highly stylized theatre and the ferris wheel in the Prater (both of which appear, naturally, in the film), it is above all the city of which people say: it is not what it used to be. It is, as innumerable shots of blasted buildings and crafty workmen constantly...
...expectations; the road-show companies it books do better than its own productions. "I felt that a town with so many actors in it should have a place for them to act before live audiences," he says. "They turned their backs on it. It made me sore as hell recently to read that Marlon Brando and some other actors were going to start a theater there so that at last Hollywood would have a living theater. I gave them one in 1954 and spent a million bucks on it." Hundreds of thousands more have gone into Hartford's researches...
...matter of kill or be killed. He openly condoned the shooting of prisoners. He once ordered his artillery to fire on a supporting army unit if it exposed his marines by retreating. Puller's tactics were built around one word: attack. "I'd follow that man to hell," said one marine, "and it looks as though I may have...
...never a man to refuse a drink-a fact discreetly withheld by Biographer Davis.) He once marched his men along an asphalt highway under a broiling sun until even tough young officers were passing out. "We can't hope to win future wars-and we got the hell beat out of us in Korea-unless we have discipline," he said. "It is going to take some brutality...
...over his roaring protests, Lieut. General Chesty Puller was retired from the corps on the ground that he was suffering from high blood pressure. "I hate like hell to go," said the old war horse, and went home to the Virginia village of Saluda. where he now lives as peacefully as any other veteran. Author Davis makes an attempt to prove that Puller was railroaded out of the service by Marine ex-Commandant Lemuel Shepherd because he did not fit in with the new corps. The accusation, completely unproved, seems to stem more from hero worship of Puller than from...