Word: shrillings
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...Were it not for my twoscore and four years (and those six other little mouths to keep filled), I'd be sorely tempted to trot down to the nearest recruiting center right now. To those critics who may shrill against such pastimes in the middle of a messy war, I say it's a real delight to get a glimpse of the lighter side of the deadly serious and dangerous business with which these boys are otherwise occupied...
Life for a Death. The police pursue them relentlessly and, during one ambush, Buck's skull is split open by bullets. Blanche, wounded in one eye, turns into a shrill animal, incoherently rending the air with screams. Buck thrashes in agony, like a blind bull pierced with sword thrusts. Pain becomes palpable, and the actors became horribly real as the screen turns as bloody as a slaughterhouse floor...
...wise for the University to provide a reasoned reaction of its own to civil disobedience. Its alternative is to forget its own rules, and to rely in the last instance on the Cambridge police. The University tends, as it should, to be far more tolerant of shrill dissent than society at large. Those who wish to defy laws and risk arrest to make their protest heard will not be deprived of the opportunity, either off campus or on. The University will still remain a haven for the freer expression of ideas...
That tolerance is one of this University's greatest strengths, a tribute to its willingness to listen to all voices however shrill...
...normal person in the film. Keith's bafflement after the death of his wife, his expressions of confused regret at the loss of a woman whom he betrayed every day and who was repelled by him, is honest and touching. Keith's character is a satisfying medium between the shrill simpleness of Miss Taylor and the obvious complexity of Brando, and he attracts most of the audience sympathy...