Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas 1945 lay deep in the long shadow of eternity. Beside every U.S. celebrant of Christmas, there watched, like the shepherds, three presences: the war's dead, the wretched and The Bomb...
...19th Century proves a useful anachronism, lifting the play out of semibarbaric shadow without exposing it to too modern a glare. And the self-mocking, self-pitying, sardonic, introspective Prince is in many ways a perfect 19th-Century hero: a child-as he was actually the great-grandfather-of Byronism. Actor Evans, however, does not play him that way. His Hamlet, even before it braved possible G.I. guffaws, was a man of energy and action. His Hamlet remains, for that reason, not complex or deeply felt. But it has great stage authority, fine comic and sardonic moments, and elocutionary skill...
Chicago was "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum." There Author Miller saw an Indian, in full regalia, selling snake oil in the shadow of "the great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week...
...courtroom lights were dimmed for the first time since the trial started, and the defendants sat in semidarkness. Across a motion picture screen moved, in light and shadow, what veteran correspondents called the most terrible pictures of mass slaughter and torture they had ever seen. It was an endless stream of corpses-single corpses and small mountains of them, corpses lying still and corpses being carted away by bulldozers, corpses shrunk by starvation and corpses battered by boots or clubs, staring corpses and corpses which, miraculously, had still some life left in them and feebly moved about before the camera...
Dividing his analysis of the state of our national defenses "over which the shadow of the atomic bomb now falls," President Conant considered both our immediate military neeeds and our long range plans in his address before the Harvard Club of Boston yesterday evening...