Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because pictures of that sort are hardly ever available, China-watchers have usually regarded long, itemized reports of destruction with some skepticism and merely talked about "widespread violence." Armed with new proof of terror and destruction, they have seriously started re-examining whether, in their efforts to report the situation accurately, they have not underestimated the extent of violence and bloodshed in Mao's China...
...Mayer's combined respect for and ability to manipulate the audience does not entirely result in our being able to sit back and laugh for 2 1/2 hours, and his vision of the all-too-real dream incorporates terror, coruption of the flesh, and the inadequacy of the bonds between the combinations of lovers. Here the Summer Players' production is less accessible, and without dwelling on interpretation best left to each of you, I would quietly and seriously suggest that Mayer has invested something of his heart and soul in the show. Also that the terror inherent in the confrontation...
...performance of these two tasks was second-rate. The continuity of the book is jerky, again a result of Hersey's almost total reliance on direct quotes to tell the story. Irrelevant details abound throughout the book, dissipating most of the interest aroused by the terror of the actual episode. In their rush to publish the book, too, Hersey and his publishers have hurt the book. A myriad of proofing errors mar Hersey's pains-takingly-built facade of honesty...
Imprisoned Doctor. Born in Vienna in 1903, Bettelheim devoted himself to the arts and won a doctorate in esthetics before switching to psychology. A Jew, he was sent to Dachau, then to Buchenwald. There he observed fellow prisoners who literally died of terror or -like autistics-totally withdrew from rational life. That experience led to the monograph that was the forerunner of his series of seven renowned books. Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations was published in 1939, shortly after Bettelheim was released* and went to the U.S. This work was made required reading by General Eisenhower...
...Scarcely less memorable is Charles Denner, a painter who poses Moreau as Diana the Huntress and gets an arrow in the back. Or Claude Rich as a womanizer who smirks curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror. Another director might have made the balcony scene an urban one; Truffaut stages it along the Côte d'Azur, where Photographer Raoul Coutard makes the outside beckon like a Cezanne landscape. Even a minute role played by a little boy is observed with special insight. When Moreau...