Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subtle and sober poet, Mr. Van Doren has published one novel before. With considerable art Author Van Doren builds up an atmosphere of foreboding through a girl's terror of her horrible-tongued, death-ridden aunt, manages an accidental murder by the girl's sweetheart, a boy who works in a tourist camp, creates one or two unforgettable moments of suspense as the boy successfully hides his crime. But then he goes soft on the whole thing in a happy ending for which Aunt Esther conveniently turns out to have a heart of gold...
...technique has added one new effect to Pinocchio that Snow White did not have-terror. The peeping eyes in the night scenes in Snow White were scary, the beautifully drawn buzzards (of which Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art now owns one sketch) were ghoulish. But in Pinocchio the plunging, charging whale, Monstro, is terrifying...
...wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, last year, of the magnificent second voyage of Christopher Columbus. Of that passage from the shores of the old world to the shores of the new, there is not much known; it had little of the romance of the first, and not much of its terror and hardship. It came at a time when the Admiral was at the height of his fortunes: his fleet was big and well-equipped (although his flagship La Capitana, nicknamed La Galante by the sailors, was so slow that it held up the others) and the weather was fine...
...White Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim...
...White Terror that followed the civil war there are many conflicting stories, but nobody denies that Reds were executed by the thousands, that thousands of others died in concentration camps and many more thousands fled to Russia. The Communist press claims 30,000 were executed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says 15,000. Finnish Government sources put the figure at 2,000 executions, 10,000 dead of flu. Whatever the cause and the figure, they got rid of the Finnish Workers Republic...