Word: terrorisms
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They had chosen one of the very few things in the world that are both great and perfect. As playwriting, Oedipus is as compact as dynamite. As drama, it tramples down its own large horrors, mounting to a world of austere terror beyond them. All the blind helplessness of man's fate is in it, and all the tragic suffering of his meeting...
Beautee Soap is the stake at which herds of miserable Radio Citymen are burned alive 24 hours a day, to appease both Despot Evans' sadistic love of power and Beautee, and their own terror at the thought of losing Beautee's ten-million-dollar advertising account...
...Hucksters is Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June, and M-G-M has paid $200,000 for a seven-year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope that...
...pride & joy is Yvon ("Le Terrible") Petra, 30, a 6-ft.-7 terror. Le Terrible can rifle a serve with all the velocity of Tilden at his best. Petra spent 18 months in a German prison camp with his 6-ft. Davis Cup mate, Pierre Pellizza...
...Perhaps it is unfair to judge this 'government of national unity' by Western standards. Since Poland lives under a continued threat of underground terror from the Right, it was inevitable that the government should impose a legalized terror from the Left...