Word: torment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where have you gone, Jack Morrison, in this, Yale's hour of torment...
...United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors...
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? ?Shaw...
...that Magdalene is really two Marys rolled into one. As Judas, Ben Vereen, 24, has one of the more physically demanding roles in the history of Broadway. Not only must he sing at great length?in a style that suggests Sammy Davis Jr. imitating Chuck Berry?but, in the torment of guilt, he hops and dances around like a man in the grip of epilepsy or leeches...
Malle manages the technical side of his scenario with facility. There are funny moments in the classroom and at home when Laurent and his brothers torment the family maid. Malle, however, seeks to banish the Oedipal shadows that cloud his story by turning almost everything into comedy. Instead of forming an ironic counterpoint to the dark psychology of the story, safe and easy laughter trivializes it, stifling the pain of true recall...