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Preacher Cleland proves his power with a piece of advice to young preachers about their witness in the world: "The believer walks in the World as a sympathetic stranger in an alien land . . . But he knows that the world...
...townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...
...expressed through the real world of buses, telephones and ordinary people. The movie creates an everyday reality the audience knows. It then allows something foreign, unusual, horrible to enter that reality, but the horrible is never tangible, never fully explained. The audience is allowed an impression of something alien and frightening, and that something is never clearly defined...
...what is going on. Everything is straightforward and familiar. Suddenly the camera focuses on a hand holding a gun, two shots ring out, and a sense of the mysterious unknown is introduced. It is successful because it is intangible, because it is no more than an impression of something alien and frightening suddenly introduced into a perfectly ordinary situation...
...aspects to the job. "If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified," said President Edward Hoiyoke on his deathbed in 1769. "let him become president of Harvard College." The mortification has come in part from the nation, which has always insisted on treating Harvard as a patch of alien soil. As far back as 1722, under the name of Silence Dogood. Ben Franklin was blasting it as a place where students learned little more than how to "enter a Room genteely . . . and from whence they return, after abundance of trouble and Charges, as great Blockheads as ever." Two centuries...