Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crucible, built on the Salem witch trials, deals with the conscience of a community stirred to a storm of hatred and terror by the sexual fantasies of Abigail Williams, a wanton teen-age Pilgrim ("Come to me now," she sings, "as you came before, like some great stallion wildly pantin' "). Ward, expertly assisted by Librettist Bernard Stambler, retained the shape of the Miller play almost intact-and also much of the language...
...force within him that keeps him from fleeing, shocked when his child spits in his face, agonized while watching "all the hope of the world draining away" in an emptied bottle of wine, despairing as he cries out for a Judas to betray him, collapsing in lip-quivering terror in the face of death. Producer Susskind surrounded Olivier with a supporting cast almost incredible in its depth. George C. Scott was superb as the police lieutenant who destroys his victim with cold intelligence and sympathetic understanding rather than simple brutality. As the slatternly mother of the priest's child...
...setting of the Bowmans' ordeal was a middle-class neighborhood of raw houses that rise up from the Pacific Ocean south of the Golden Gate Bridge. In April 1960, the terror began. The windows were shot out of their living room with a BB gun, and next day the windshield of their car was smashed with a volley from a pellet gun. Between April 15 and July 30, the living room windows were shot out four times and the car's windows were blasted seven times. On July 18, white paint was poured over the car and caked...
Christians who remain Christians,' to use a phrase of Albert Camus, In a powerful essay in his posthumously published Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Camus exclaims: 'What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out loud and clear; for between the forces of terror and the forces of dialogue, a great unequal battle has begun.' Notice his grouping, the forces of dialogue, men who acknowledge other men as persons, against the forces of terror...
Camus died without hearing that clear voice from the Christian camp, and now the forces of 50-megaton terror bray louder than ever. McCord concludes with another Camus passage: " 'We are still waiting, and I am waiting, for a grouping of all those who refuse to be dogs, and are resolved to pay the price that must be paid so that man can be something more than...