Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...whatever else comes from the manual. The film is not completely vapid. The bust at the end is in part a frightening, sickening exercise in Hollywood gore, but is enacted in the most immediate terms possible. There is little dialogue here, the camera keeps to itself, and the sheer terror of cops battling students inevitably leaves the audience shaken, even if they are all stoned and still in high school...
...grandiose ideas and started to assume the same posture as its friend in Pisa. The Salemites, not so tolerant or brave as the Pisans, had the poor old thing razed, and its tenants went to Post's Woods to live, from where at dusk Charles often "fled in terror of mysterious presences...
...most extraordinary men in the history of Communism last week commanded the attention of their countrymen. One of them led his country into a period of terror and repression so traumatic that his own people denounced him after his death, overturning his statues and pulling down his pictures. The other, who tried to blend socialism with Western-style personal liberties, won the deep respect of his countrymen. As history so often does, it reversed the roles of the two men. The represser was resuscitated, the reformer repudiated...
...across the length and breadth of the Soviet Union and its satellites. But after his death in 1953, the old dictator's successors ruthlessly turned against him. In a secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 denounced Stalin as an egomaniac who employed mass terror and torture. Stalin was then efficiently erased from public view, and the exterior vestiges of his rule-statues, pictures, street signs -came tumbling down. Only in his native Georgia did his statues and pictures remain in place. In 1961, as a final act of destalinization, his body was removed from...
...Stalin in the recently published fourth edition of Lenin's biography, which is a sort of hagiography of Soviet Communism. Unlike the earlier biographies, the new edition omits the entire section on the rise of Stalin's cult of personality, the Soviet euphemism for his reign of terror. It glosses over his disputes with Lenin about economic and military policies. In addition, the present version strikes out Lenin's complaints that Stalin was coarse and rude. In fact, the only criticism of Stalin appears in Lenin's famous letter to the Twelfth Party Congress...