Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creating the fabric of a new political life in Germany must certainly be in the hands of the men and women who remained in Germany and survived the long Nazi tyranny. They are the ones who have borne the burden and heat of the long struggle against the Gestapo terror. They have been in touch with the masses...
...Terms. Democracy is going down to the tomb. The need for world fellowship, bred in terror, is furnishing a binder to hold men together. The belief in the dignity of man, of all men, is in itself a primary protection against the perfidies of the war of nerves, a check against the regimentation of domestic life, a guarantee against life's waste in war. It is the bond between the drawings of the engineer and the unformed hope of the man in the street; it is the force that overcomes the bickerings of allies, the conflicts of national prestige...
Newspaper stories of a reign of terror in the schools aroused the B.B.R. to investigation. Gist of Chairman Schantz's report: pupils are misunderstood; teachers and pupils should regularly talk over personal and school problems; courses should be revised by people "with modern ideas for modern students"; pupils should be allowed "any choice of subjects which they feel might be of use"; there should be more recreational centers...
...create terror and suspense, Welles employs familiar Hitchcock tricks of bizarre lighting and ominous disappearances, and adds some of his own. The picture's unusually pregnant photography always suggests much more than it shows. It makes effective use of a portable phonograph, whose cracked, tinny tune, signaling another killing at each playing, steadily grows in horror. The film is also notable for a terrifying performance by Jack Moss as a tubby Nazi killer...
...Chinese fronts have gone lean and inglorious. Once there was terror, urgency, bombardment, earth to scorch and an enemy to hate. Now there is only hunger...