Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With two rounds to go, Jersey Joe's handlers told him he had the fight (and the world's heavyweight championship) in the bag. Under orders to stay away from Louis, Jersey Joe began playing hare & hound. When the fight ended, Joe Louis, instead of staying in his corner, ducked through the ropes. (He explained later: "I fought so lousy that I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out of sight.") His handlers pulled him back to wait for the decision...
...Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
...from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...
...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...
...Invaders," by Peter Gray, is reminiscent of the lead story in the last issue. Both are tales of neurotic young men hounded by fear. While the first attempt was confused and shadowy, the new story, dealing with three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...