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...goes. Sex is sickness, love is a torment. A lesser writer could not get away with such loaded dice, but Moravia is a first-rate craftsman and he can make the reader squirm along with his characters...
...whatever address they happen to be, dozens of Chinese refugee students will get letters from home this week, and each will bring a heaviness of heart and a torment of fear. Since last March, between 10% and 20% of the Chinese students and ex-students in the U.S. have received such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless...
...protection only to learn that pride is a luxury to the poor. Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet." At 26 he entered holy orders "as [one joins] a regiment." He was tormented by pride and used this as an instrument to torment others. He wrote of himself: "Each line shall stab, shall blast, like daggers and like fire." Early, he knew himself. "My mind," he wrote, "was like a conjured spirit...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) is the naked title of one of the new crime shows, and the movie director with the fine hand for murder and mayhem should be recommendation enough for TV fans of terror and torment. Unhappily, the best part of the show is Hitchcock's own sardonic introductions of the sponsor ("And now for that part of the program you have all been waiting for") and his description of his TV spot (a series of "situation tragedies"). But his play last week was the tired tale about the girl who turns...
...easy to forget anyone else in Europe is making any pictures at all. But the few Swedish movies that have trickled in the great flood prove that the big three don't have the same monopoly over quality which they seem to possess over quantity. Such films as Torment and The Great Adventure reveal the Swedes as masters of photographic technique with a special flair for subtle psychological themes...