Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though small boys may find it hard to believe, there is something to the old saw "This hurts me more than it does you." For at the very moment when he raises his hand to strike his son, the angry father may suffer such a violent (though subconscious) emotional storm that his arm drops to his side, paralyzed. He may even collapse in a heap on the floor...
...without using false theatrics. As co-scripted and directed by Actress Ida Lupino. The Hitchhiker is a knowing job, as harsh and unrelieved as the barren Mexican settings against which it is played. The three main characters are almost the entire cast. Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy suffer agonizingly as the captives, and William Talman is an effective murderer. Good make-up detail: Actor Talman's deformed right eyelid, like Killer Cook's, which enables him to sleep with one eye constantly, eerily open...
...Stephania's past only lightly, and has avoided the trap of feeling sorry for her heroine. In its quiet, even-paced way, Stephania is a novel of complete integrity-and a testimonial to one of the human rights that finally bind all men together, the right to suffer...
...Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these investigations may be, the teacher who irritates the Velde committee by his silence at the same time encourages them to make more accusations and to conduct further investigations. Let our teachers appear not afraid to suffer the consequences of what they have believed in. let them have the courage to speak forthrightly, whether it be to the reporters after a hearing, or to the very interrogators of the committee itself. If our professors have interest in effectively defending academic freedom, let them defend it with frankness...
Last week committee members were shifting nervously, realizing that unless the deadlock is broken soon, the atomic program and the U.S. will suffer...