Word: wrath
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...Wrath (Carl Dreyer; Schaefer Associates) is a study of the struggle between good & evil, as waged among witches, priests and ordinary people of a 17th Century Danish town. It opens with the quietly horrifying interrogation, torture and burning alive of an old woman who has been denounced as a witch. The rest of this Danish-made picture examines, no less acutely, three souls in torment...
With that, handsome, fast-talking Stu Symington, who had already incurred the Navy's rage for assailing its theories of strategic bombing, had drawn down on himself the wrath of the ground forces. At the end of the week he was a little rueful, feeling that he had overreached himself. He had certainly made it clear that the ideas of the armed services had not been "merged...
...living in the foothills of the Amne Machin range of western China sing an ode to the mighty peaks above. They sing that Amne Machin is a sacred mountain, holding untold stores of gold. Travelers who tamper with its treasures or its mysteries (says the ode) will provoke divine wrath expressing itself in hailstorms and other calamities...
Loose talk was responsible for the eventual capture of the gang, and the two members who couldn't keep their mouths shut have kindled sparks of wrath and internal warfare in the under-world organization...
...about the three-inch, one-column portraits of people which were then the only kind of illustration TIME used. It tried for pictures (not always flattering) which brought out the salient characteristics of a personality. A very simple principle was added: if the story told about a man in wrath, TIME chose a picture of him looking angry; if, in the story, he had reason to rejoice, the picture smiled. Years ago, Edward Steichen, master of photography, made this comment: "Depending chiefly on one class of material, press portraits, and in spite of an apparently casual and insignificant display, these...