Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspense begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...
Extenuation. In San Diego, Lloyd Sampsel sent a notarized statement to the Bureau of Internal Revenue promising to attend to his tax forms as soon as possible and explaining why he was late in filing: he was in jail for murder...
...Wertham's subject is murder. It seems that more people are killed each year by other people than by tuberculosis. Taking murder purely as a fatal disease, Dr. Wertham examines the role of psychiatry in homicide. He connects the two in the following manner: "Murder grows from negative emotions, from fear and hatred, from anxiety and anger, from frustration and desperation, and resentment. The science of emotions is psychiatry...
...most part, "The Show of Violence" recounts actual murder cases in which the question of the defendant's sanity played the major role. In all these cases, official psychiatry was grotesquely bungled. Dr. Wertham, who was closely connected with the cases, tells the stories to the tune of his bitter critiques...
...Murder for the Doctor. As a result of such indifference, moral disintegration overwhelms a French civil servant in Saigon, overtakes a black-marketeering colonel in Manila. But it is in the title story that Shaplen does his most explicit preaching. True to pattern, U.S. Army 1st Lieut. Robert Gordon is a man of good will and hazy intention when he gets to Macao on leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves...