Word: puppeteered
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...bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning" the puppet which represented the most important...
...thing, a new army landed on the coast of Fukien Province (about halfway between Shanghai and Hong Kong).It was a pathetic puppet army, and its generalissimo was a poet, scholar, gentleman, politician, anything but a fighter-Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei. The Japanese said it was made up of 50,000 Chinese who love the New Order. Its name, which only the Japanese could have devised: The Peace and National Reconstruction Army...
Like Carlo Collodi's children's classic, the picture is a morality tale. Kindly old Wood Carver Geppetto carves a puppet so lifelike that he is given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late...
...there any characters in Snow White to compare with J. Worthington Foulfellow, the actor-fox, who sells Pinocchio to the puppet show, or his shabby, screwloose, unscrupulous companion, Giddy, the cat. In satirizing this pair of ham actors, Disney is working on a new plane. This is no longer the playful caricaturing of old Wood Carver Geppetto, the frolicsome kitten or Jiminy Cricket. Foulfellow and Giddy are savage adult satire. They are even out of place in a children's picture. But they suggest the direction Disney may take if he ever makes a greater picture than Pinocchio...
...that the World War had nothing to do with spiritual purification made him turn against those phases of society which seemed to him to be contributing factors toward causing war. Hence Grosz's early work consists of a condemnation of the money-grabbing, cafe-inhabiting industrial magnate, and the puppet-like member of the masses who allowed himself to be manocuvered into slaughtering his fellows on the battle field. Grosz is not entirely without justification, for he has much to say; his method of communication is far more subtle than a cursory glance at his work might indicate. A further...