Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY might have been just another kidnapping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster-criminal...
...Soon there were too many tippling collegians. They spilled out of the jammed bar and into the windy 40° cold of the North Dakota night. Bored and beery, they began looking for excitement-and warmth. Gradually, what began as a springtime put-on turned into a night of terror...
Measure of Promise. "Much of the terror that once gripped women whose husbands were unfaithful to them stemmed from the threat it posed to their economic security," Dr. Bernard said. "Just a few years ago, I believed that a woman could not be casual about her own extramarital relations. Now a new kind of woman is emerging who can accept the sex-as-fun point of view without conflict." Although not necessarily endorsing the idea, she observed that married couples have become increasingly willing to accept a new kind of marriage that preserves "permanence at the expense of exclusivity...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. This might have been just another kidnaping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster criminal...
There were other indications of growing impatience, both with wavering college presidents and radical student groups. At Cornell, the board of trustees ordered President James Perkins to implement a ten-point program that would protect the school against "tactics of terror." In Cambridge, a judge found all but four of 173 defendants guilty of criminal trespass during their occupation of a Harvard administration building last month. At the same time, Harvard undergraduates ignored the urgings of the S.D.S. and voted by a 3-to-l margin against resumption of their student strike...