Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. Pity and terror are evoked by Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) and by Actor Tom Courtenay as a baffled army deserter en route to his execution during World...
...HUNTER, by Allen R. Dodd Jr. Every career man's secret fear nightmarishly materializes in the ordeal of one Manhattan executive, abruptly ousted from his high-salaried berth in an ad agency. Dodd's palpable masterpiece of terror shadows the desperate job hunter on his grim rounds as he shrinks from breadwinner to abject pleader...
...painful, stirring film, which could easily have been nothing more than a sentimental antiwar movie about the little man and the big machine. But Director-Producer Joseph Losey, whose movie The Servant won eight British Film Academy nominations and four awards, has made King and Country a pity-and-terror-filled drama of death against life, and law against justice...
...prestige. He showed how an incorrect policy is self-sustaining: the policymakers, fearful of being proven fundamentally wrong, identify the problem of American prestige with their personal political prestige and redouble their efforts to formulate a victorious strategy from their mythical conceptions. Finally, he argued that our practice of terror and destruction in Vietnam was brutalizing our Armed Forces and undermining basic American ideals...
...eyes, huge and black, blazed with intense intelligence. Powerful images, emotions "like great knotted snakes" overwhelmed him. Sometimes in his seizures he could not distinguish between past and present. Once, while walking through the woods, he saw a figure walking toward him, and as it passed he realized in terror that the figure was himself, his Doppelgänger...