Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the globe the diplomatic consequences of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks snowballed. Cautiously, with many a hedge and continuing mutual suspicion, the Big Two pushed ahead last week with a historic attempt to change the "balance of terror" stalemate between East and West...
...front-page editorial, "of so many unjust and gratuitous accusations." Diario went on to a withering analysis of freedom under Castro: "Public figures may say one thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element." This kind of liberty, said Diario, is like a garden with the sign: "Enter-but beware of dogs." Added Avance Columnist Agustin Tamargo: "You do not want newspapermen. Commander Castro; you want a record player...
...director. In a series of remarkably effective close-up shots he manages to dramatically convey the tension, uncertainty, and fear of the people of Salem. Except for an overly chaotic courtroom scene, the picture is smoothly and intelligently handled. (George Auric's score, incidentally, masterfully underlines the terror of the townspeople...
...current fare has everything: Cinemascope, Hypno Vista, a little terror, a little sex, and more laughs than the writer intended. Following a rollicking travelogue through Poland comes a sales pitch on hypnotism by a man we are assured is an eminent Hollywood psychiatrist. The movie we are about to see, he promises us, is a real tiger; within five minutes we're going to be scared silly...
...same day's newspaper was the story of two Negro teen-agers who walked into a Manhattan elementary school, forced a teacher to empty her purse at knife point, and fled while her fourth-grade class screamed in terror...