Word: hooligan
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...last week, Violinist Jascha Heifetz once more ignored Israeli threats and warnings, played a work by the late German Composer Richard Strauss, just as he had done in Haifa and Tel Aviv (TIME, April 20). Moments after the concert, in front of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, a hooligan stepped up to Heifetz, struck him a blow on his right hand with an iron bar, and ran. The same evening, with an aching bow hand, Heifetz played the fourth concert of his Israel tour to heavy applause (Strauss was not scheduled). Then he called off his final concert (Strauss...
...Shameful Things." The effect of the Nation's issue, said he, "is to encourage the world to accept Radio Moscow's view, of the U.S., the view of this society as a disintegrating democracy, one in which the hooligan element not only strives for power as it does elsewhere, but has already achieved...
...observes one of the characters, "is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." To dramatize the point, the picture sets itself the task of probing half a dozen major characters and offering keen glimpses of as many minor ones. Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso...
...themselves, while uniformly well acted, are unevenly drawn. Some, e.g., the master criminal and the self-pitying bookie, are excellent. But the safecracker who worries about his sick child is pat and overworked, and the important character of the crooked lawyer is trite. And with the death of the hooligan in a Kentucky meadow, his head nuzzled by the horses he longed to see again, Huston gives a hard-bitten film a surprisingly mawkish ending...
...Throw Them Out." Such teaching produces the hooligan bands that raid Western Berlin and smear Communist slogans on the walls. It organizes the grinning gangs that stand on Potsdamer Platz and chant songs about how the FDJ would throw the "splitters of Germany" (i.e., the Western Allies) out of Berlin...