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...Director Reed's hands, a shot of a body floating in the Danube tells a story of its own, a shot of a cat licking a man's shoe becomes a chilling premonition of shock. Reed gets a grotesquely comic sequence out of an eerie four-year-old boy leading a street crowd in pursuit of Gotten while the accompanying zither jangles like a nickelodeon piano. At every turn, he exploits the hulking shadows and wet, back-lighted cobblestones of Vienna at night. Cameraman Robert (Odd Man Out) Krasker gives beautiful expression to Reed's photogenic tricks...
...Serbian Republic. Djilas, a graduate from Belgrade University's faculty of law, is co-editor of the Communist daily, Borba. Today one of his functions is to direct "agitprop," the psychological warfare branch of the Yugoslav government. A forceful, brilliant writer and speaker, Djilas, with his shock of black hair and lively eyes, is a more attractive personality than the other two members of the triumvirate...
...Then the shock treatment begins to pay off, first in bombing results, gradually in grudging admiration for Savage, finally in the esprit de corps that he has been driving for. But as the group's record vindicates the general's inhuman regime, his own humanity betrays him into physical collapse...
Cybernetics Shock. Professor Aiken need not worry: bigger problems are on the way. The success of the automatic calculators set off an explosion of high, wide & handsome pondering that is still reverberating. One of the first recorded tremors was a small, extraordinary book called Cybernetics (John Wiley & Sons; $3), by Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. (TIME...
...Wiener says that some computers are already "human" enough to suffer from typical psychiatric troubles. Unruly memories, he says, sometimes spread through a machine as fears and fixations spread through a psychotic human brain. Such psychoses may be cured, says Wiener, by rest (shutting down the machine), by electric shock treatment (increasing the voltage in the tubes), or by lobotomy (disconnecting part of the machine...