Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After her father started acting like that, I went back to the public library and got some different books. These books were to show that there is a limit as to what you can do with people, that there are courts and justice. That's how I tried to discuss our marriage problems and find a solution. To her, marriage was finances. My wife used to say to me, 'No money...
...Time Limit! (by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...
...Communist lectures and broadcasts, had averred that the U.S. used germ warfare-a thoughtful judge advocate (Arthur Kennedy) is made suspicious by the very conclusiveness of the case. There is not only shattering testimony against Cargill; there is his admission of guilt, and refusal to explain his actions. Time Limit! being a thriller, it would be unfair to reveal more than that Cargill had turned traitor from decent motives; had been, indeed, on the horns of a lacerating dilemma...
...general, the debate stresses how agonizing are the alternatives for the transgressor, how dangerous are all absolutes for his judges. It asks at what point cracking up might be forgivable, and how far a moment of capitulation must cancel out a lifetime of loyalty. And in particular, Time Limit! inquires how far Communist brainwashing might call for revised standards of judgment...
...THINK there is a very definite and distinct limit to what this country can charge its taxpayers over an extended period. I think that it gets right back into what makes a democracy tick, and into what is the difference between a free country and a slave state...