Word: janus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Face (Columbia) will come as news to Allied veterans who still think they liberated Europe in World War II by defeating the Germans. The real cause of Germany's defeat, it now appears, is that Hitler wasn't Hitler any more; he was really Janus the Great (Luther Adler), a professional impersonator bent on destroying the Reich by making all the wrong military decisions...
...week long official Washington was trying to look concerned but calm, determined but not belligerent. It was a difficult, and perhaps impossible, role to bring off. The Administration was trying to wear two faces without looking like Janus: a militant, chin-out attitude towards Korea; an unruffled, unmilitant countenance for the rest of the world to see. Harry Truman indicated he would not be stampeded into ringing all the alarm bells to put out a fuse-box fire...