Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...
...Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
...comes a cropper in dealing with the handsome stranger-a psychotic who is a good deal more dangerous than Camilla at first suspects. Mrs. Taylor suggests facets of his character, all neatly and plausibly, but no individual emerges. At the climax of the story Camilla is filled with understandable terror at learning that her new friend is a murderer. The motives and behavior of the young man at this point are, however, by no means made credible to the reader. The novel ends rather helplessly with his suicide...
Budapest's csardas alley was terror-stricken. If a Hungarian could not write about gypsy sweethearts, wishing wells and bachelor flats, what could he write about? Grimly, the boys buckled down to the rhythm of the new democracy. One new Hungarian song presents the revised new view of the good old days. Before the Communists took over, relates the song, a certain "have-not peasant" could not even afford to buy a new shirt or pants, while the landlord's dog grew fat on the peasant's produce. Then, the Communist land reform gave the peasant four...
Garrick was thought especially successful as Hamlet; his start of terror at seeing the ghost was considered one of the 18th Century stage's great moments. Only the more critical Johnson refused to 'be impressed. Asked Boswell once: "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?" "I hope not," Johnson replied. "If I did, I should frighten the ghost...