Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coup Fever. The transformation began several weeks ago when the slackening of ground action became apparent. And although individual acts of terrorism continued, the threat of indiscriminate rocketing ebbed. No rockets have plummeted into Saigon, in fact, since Aug. 22. Despite a brief attack of coup fever last month, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu displayed more and more confidence. Then the rumors of a complete bombing halt swept Saigon, the terror stopped, and peace fever prevailed...
...many of his previous films-notably Accident and The Servant-Losey has shown skill at conjuring up corruption and terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the master, but brings none of his talent to the task. Nor is Losey much aided by his actors. Farrow continues to radiate a fragile elegance and a shrewd sense of character and timing. But she alone cannot make a movie...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
...carried arms for fear of saboteurs or sudden attack. The U S bombers were on airborne alert round the clock, and the nation's capacity for devastating retaliation was unquestioned. So was the efficiency of Curt LeMay. His men regarded him with a combination of respect and abject terror...
...dozen other composers float in and out of Berio's nightmarish stream of semiconsciousness. In one sense, the words do not matter; Berio is not interested in making a song. He is communicating a kind of life attitude that shrinks at the prospect of some unnamable terror. It is a musical collage of headlines persistently giving a warning of holocaust...