Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...
...Terror. One frantic man tied sheets together, dangled his wife outside a window. His strength began to fail. For a while he called hoarsely for help. Then with a desperate effort he pulled her back. A woman seized her four-year-old daughter and jumped. Her husband leaped with her. They fell together-very slowly it seemed-and thudded on the roof of a court below...
Firemen called ceaselessly above the roar of engines and the throb of the pumps: "Don't jump! Don't jump!" A latticework of ladders rose into the searchlight beams which roamed the building's face. Seven more people felt the terror, escaped the heat by diving and dying...
This oath was being taken by thousands of fanatical Polish Girl Scouts in D.P. camps outside Poland last week. Inside Poland, the Communist-dominated Government's campaign against Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party rose to new heights of terror...
Without intending blasphemy, his U.S. assistants called him "Todd Almighty." He was trying to change the geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...