Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom, either, has there been such monotony of murder. The one-man reign of terror that ends with Richard's death on Bosworth Field not only demotes the play from tragedy to melodrama; it eventually gives horror the colorlessness of habit. Toward the end, Shakespeare's Richard III is very nearly as bad as Shakespeare's Richard...
...Duty. People interested in Graham Greene's view of such enormities will find six pieces in the book worth careful reading. One is an early story of childhood called The End of the Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty...
...immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror in 1919, Father Pehm attacked him in a pamphlet. The Communists led him through the town's streets "in shame," then imprisoned him in the county courthouse...
...marchers lived off the land, though the Communists never mentioned plunder, spoke only of "confiscation committees." Provincial populations fled in terror before "Mr. Soviet," as the Red army became known. The Reds' first great obstacle was the Yangtze, where Chiang hoped to stop them. A Red detachment in captured Nationalist uniforms managed to take a small river port which permitted the whole army to cross. But the most famous incident on the Long March was the crossing of the Tatu River, where a detachment of Communists swung across hand over hand on the bare iron chains of a half...
Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour...