Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault lies in the script, not in the acting of the east. Claude Jarman, Jr., as the boy, and Jauno Hernandez, as the Negro, are both excellent, especially the former in his portrayal of terror. Elizabeth Patterson gives another of her solid performances as the old lady who believes in justice even for black people...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was helped down, and began passing out candy...
...devilishly clever plot. Posing as maintenance men, they are hatching schemes to frazzle nerves, and prevent undergraduates from getting their rightful hours of sleep. Their purpose is clear--to turn brother against brother, friend against friend, mankind against itself, to produce a reign of terror of REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS...
...techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
...many men, three were especially destined to complicate her existence: a police official who loved her, a neurotic student whom she loved sincerely, and a murderer who got her pregnant. In a final blaze of violence all of them were wiped out of her life, but Adriana met terror, as she met all adversity, with a forthright philosophy: "I thought how [my baby] would be the child of a murderer and a prostitute; but any man in the world might happen to kill someone and any woman might sell herself for money; and what mattered most of all was that...