Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...birds trying to clean one another of this filth that defies description, and we see birds made tame by terror of it. We find tangled on the sea wrack masses of black filth that are still living birds, and we have seen in oil, when it has concentrated into long black lines, the horrors of black, croaking phantoms that were still birds...
...bourgeoisie of humanitarian Europe already have spent all their efforts in crying against the Red Terror, and with smiles on their faces fully endorse the new and ugly sight at Sofia...
...dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
...Crime in the Whistler Room". But in "Processional" and "The Moon is a Gong" the frenzied nightmare is in full swing through the waking moments of the whole play. It is the same transition which we find in Eugene O'Neill. The expressionism which had appeared in the terror-striken visions and "ha'nts" of "Emperor Jones" has come to permiate the entire play in "The Hairy Ape" till we see everything from the point of view of the central character. Similarly, among the German Expressionists, Ernst Toller, who had at first, in "Die Wandlung" and in "Masse-Mensch" alternated...