Word: cockroaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets, etc. This last time, when the doctor performs his autopsy, a cockroach-like incarnation of fear escapes, the movie stops, and the silhouetted "tingler" itself seems to be crawling on the blank screen...
...roughly the decade of the 1920s, the Young Pioneers held sway in the schools, and students learned biology through such "socially useful works" as anti-cockroach campaigns in the slums. Then, abruptly, the party line changed; hard learning returned to favor, and the progressivists were kicked...
...Hechinger's notion that the entire progressive period was cynically calculated chaos, begun "consciously and purposely in order to eliminate the power of the old school and undermine the domination of the pre-Revolution intellectuals." U.S. educationists who regarded the Soviet cockroach-hunting interlude as an honest experiment will find Hechinger's theory of planned school-wrecking hard to believe. But plan or happenstance, the effect was of a school system softened to pulp, then reshaped to the form it has had, with some variations, ever since...
...began the war as a minesweeper seaman, ended it as an ensign on a submarine). His style is lumpishly Teutonic, and the translator's cliches do not make it any smoother. Ott's impersonal handling of his characters, though it gives a horrifying anonymity to their cockroach deaths, also makes for interminable, dull stretches...
...cockroach investigation in the Band office was made at 6:30 in the morning. Two men entered the office through the connecting door to the Union. When queried by a Band member, they denied that they were searching for insects...