Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took only a few months at the Western front as an enlisted man in the Kaiser's infantry to turn Grosz's boyhood love of military panoply into a deep hatred of war. He was twice invalided, the second time to a military hospital for the shell-shocked and insane. After discharge Grosz found the subject that made his reputation: the postwar nightmare of inflation-ridden Berlin. Grosz glared at the world with jaundiced, penetrating eye, set down the characters he saw in portraits etched in gall: frozen-faced Prussian officers, lecherous, high-collared industrialists, black-marketeers, mutilated...
...contrast to Brando's passionate sincerity, Kazan develops the black-draped figure of Fernando as the cratic zealot of any war--the traitor who with no devotion to either side, with no goal other than rebellion and death. Joseph Wiseman fulfills this role with a calm fanaticism, breaking his shell of assurance with sudden bursts of excitement. Zapata's brother is equally reckless, but Anthony Quinn plays the part in an amusing swagger, lifting skirts as easily as spirits. In the feminine lead, Jean Peters is lively and tender as Brando's pet, although she occasionally succumbs to traces...
When the political shot and shell have cleared away, the U.S. may be grateful that a hard-nosed, unpolitic man of principle was in charge of its farm economy during the painful transition from wartime bonanza to peacetime reality...
Alabama's easygoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, something of a Baptist himself, was totally immersed in hot water all week long by disapproving hard-shell fellow Baptists. First off, the Bessemer Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball...
...modern egghead has his head candled by the light of psychoanalysis. The well-informed egghead of 1855 felt sure that everything depended on the shell, i.e., on a "phrenological" study of the size and shape of the skull...