Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, white-haired Poet-Professor William Ellery Leonard (TheLocomotive God, A Son of Earth) came his 65th birthday and opportunity to retire from his chair in English at the University of Wisconsin. Locked in his "phobic prison" of six campus blocks by an ineluctable terror of distance (caused, he says, by a locomotive which roared at him when he was two), there was not much that Agoraphobe Leonard could do about it. Sighed he philosophically: "I plan to go on with my teaching. I feel well. I feel the university needs...
...managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...
...deadly hide-and-seek of men and ships on it. Producer Michael Balcon and Director Pen Tennyson have given the picture a realism that makes even The Long Voyage Home look like a studio piece. This realism of the sea is shot through with the realism of sea war. Terror is in the form of ships, the shapes of guns and conning towers. It is in the fog which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even in the air, electric with the radio waves that may mean safety, may mean...
...terror alone could not make Convoy a great war picture. What makes it great is the picture's climax. The seamen stand grimly watching Captain Armitage pace the deck, trying to decide whether to take on the pocket battleship Deutschland with his outclassed cruiser. Battle means almost certain destruction. Suddenly the Captain says he has decided to fight. The men stop gnawing their lips, break into grins...
FRANZ WERFEL has known instability and terror. In 1933 he fled from the Gestapo into Paris; and, in 1940, he crossed France and Spain to Lisbon disguised as a woman. So, despite its unusual title, his recent book might be expected to be, like the hastily-written volumes of so many other emigres, a keyhole explanation of recent events. But "Embezzled Heaven" is a much less shallow work than "Seven Mysteries" or "Why France Fell." It is essentially an analysis, a dissection of Teta Linek, the gnarled servant woman of pre-auschluss Austrian aristocrats. When her employers with all their...