Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 25 years of hopes and disappointments, the Jewish dream of an independent state in Palestine is within grasping distance through the medium of partition--the division of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. Jewish aspirations towards Palestine, based partially on historical and religious feeling, became a nightmarish necessity with the coming of Hitler and the death camps. They have so far failed to materialize, but viewed against the background of the Palestine problem and the new partition plan, these hopes can shortly be realized...
...fine Austrian hand which is responsible for the picture's most memorable moments--Birnam's organized, stumbling search down New York's Third Avenue in search of an open pawn shop, the nightmarish scene of delirium in Bellevue's alcholic ward, Birnam's whirling crash down a whole flight of stairs...
...Winter's Tale (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theatre Guild) dates from that final period of Shakespeare's when reality-even real people-had seemingly begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
...Physics prizewinner for 1945 was Vienna-born Professor Wolfgang Pauli, 45, who had worked since 1940 in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Professor Pauli is an authority on quantum mechanics, that nightmarish never-never branch of science where solid matter begins to dissolve into waves and energy...