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...three and a half hours, Compulsion begins just after two young homosexuals have, with long-calculated wantonness, killed a 14-year-old boy. There follow revelations of self-styled supermen who had dreamed of committing a perfect crime; of gay, violent, vicious Artie Straus (Richard Loeb) and his "superior slave," Judd Steiner (Nathan Leopold); of how imperfect a crime the two had actually committed; of their dissension as danger looms, their behavior as detection narrows; of the fantasy worlds in which both had lived. There is finally the trial, with the prosecution flaunting the atrocious nature of the crime...
...play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression...
Marcks, seen here through his woodcuts alone, utilizes an almost completely linear approach. The Orpheus and Eurydice series seeks sculptural monumentality through the use of freer, more flexible line than is commonly found in woodcuts. Paradoxically, the "freer" the line attempts to become, the more it appears as the slave of an unconquered medium. Caught between an oddly Germanic type of flowing grace and a more indigenous forcefulness of expression, the product is unresolved. At times, especially in the matter of such problems as the portrayal of facial expressions, Marcks' drawing becomes trivial, often being nothing short of silly. Ironically...
...year ago today the people of a slave nation began a struggle to reassert the innate human desire for freedom. That their struggle failed is insignificant. Their effort was a reassuring sign to a disillusioned and apathetic world...
Harry Ashmore was reared among Negro servants in an atmosphere of mutual interdependence that, as he has often noted since, "eroded away" in the Negroes' rise out of the old master-slave relationship. At Clemson College, at Harvard, where he studied the Reconstruction as a Nieman Fellow in 1941, and as an editor on the Charlotte News in North Carolina, Newsman Ashmore reached the firm conclusion that by continued failure to meet "the basic commitments of citizenship" in its worsening relations with the Negro, the white South could only invite what Ashmore regards as the equal evil of enforced...