Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company officers. Dick Harris, Elmah Hanneken and Red English have graciously assumed the duties of guiding our faltering footsteps for this term. The only complaint so far is that our footsteps, especialy in ranks, seem more faltering now that Ens. Harris, known at present as the "Tooele Terror," has instituted his syncopated cadence...
Probably its chief appeal to the public is an overworked but still excellent plot which first exposes the plan of one member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of the evil plans afoot. This idea although interesting and teeming with suspense has already been used in "Suspicion," "Angel Street," and "Dark Waters," and becomes tedious in time...
Without Bergner, this play is nothing more than a well produced terror show made from an often-used blueprint. With Bergner, "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" is transformed into one of the most enjoyable pieces of serious drama of the season...
Most curious is the neglect of opportunities which, one would think, must have made Dorian seem a tempting movie to make in the first place: the ways in which terror might have been inspired, and a story told, through letting an audience watch an animated oil painting change before its eyes. Even when murder is committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with...
...murder and poison . . . cast overboard our last scruples." Perhaps the Nazi leadership, in the last ditch of desperation, would order gas or bacteriological warfare. But if the threat was another bluff, it was quickly called. SHAEF let the thing be said that had long been evident but unlabeled: that terror bombing of German cities was deliberate military policy. The German command could easily read between the lines an Allied warning...