Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lionized at parties (including a masquerade ball during Munich's annual Carnival) by pleasure-loving bourgeois intellectuals. He even held a series of freewheeling press conferences. Heaping scorn on the party fossils whose hackwork wins the Stalin Prize each year, Evtushenko actually blamed Stalin's reign of terror on the dictator's "close associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France's L'Express his autobiography for publication, knowing well that...
...fugitive who drinks too much and talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France's nine military districts, as it once did. Today, top officials claim...
...birds go to war? Fans hooked on Hitchcock may be dismayed to discover that, after 38 years and more than 40 films dealing mainly in straightforward shockery, the Master has traded in his uncomplicated tenets of terror for a new outlook that is vaguely nouvelle vague. The lovebirds, ostensibly family pets, perching smugly in their cage throughout the attack, seem to Know Something. Are they spies for the gulls? Do they somehow madden other species? Or are they just a comment, a wry admonition that men should "love birds"? Hitchcock does not tell, and the movie flaps to a plotless...
...keeping the black man in "his place" are varied: lynching, shotgun blasts, quiet murders, police brutality, and capital punishment. Every Negro in the South, as John Dollard once wrote, is under a kid of sentence of death. In Monroe, N.C. Robert F. Williams advocated meeting this white system of terror with Negro self-defense. What was the result? Federal intervention in the person of the FBI. What happened? The Negro community was completely disarmed and its leader charged with kidnapping...
...Need of Terror. Revolutions were usually begun for the right reason: to win political freedom. But they were soon sidetracked by trying to solve the social problem of mass poverty. Poverty, writes Arendt, cannot be eliminated by political upheaval; revolutionary get-rich-quick schemes are bound to founder. In the French Revolution, Robespierre's first efforts were directed toward curing the ills of the masses. When they failed, he turned in rage and frustration to terror-which also did not work. Robespierre was overwhelmed by the masses. "Where the breakdown of traditional authority set the poor of the earth...