Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...freely parallels Pastor Niemoller's career in op position, shows a small town Lutheran parson learning what the new Nazi gospel means, suffering in a concentration camp, escaping for a final sermon to his flock before being shot. Pastor Hall, says Dr. Leiper, "understates, not overstates" the terror...
...STRATEGY OF TERROR-Edmond Taylor-Houghton Mifflin...
...that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through Percy Bysshe Shelley...
When the French Revolution died of its own terror, the Romantics, says Author White, were its heirs. They transferred the defeated revolution to literature, agitated for it in prose and verse, plotted for it in garrets and palazzi. Since 1800, romanticism in literature has been politics continued in another form. The task of the romantics was to destroy conservative morale by indicting or ridiculing the instincts and institutions by which average people live-family, marriage, religion, education, the State. Like a band of intellectual sappers, they softened up Europe's mind in advance of every big social change...
Skulls to Cartoons. Until recently, health organizations tried to scare people about syphilis and tuberculosis with posters of gaunt men on crutches, skinny mothers spitting blood, public drinking cups shaped like skulls. Today public health educators have turned from the strategy of terror to the wiles of entertainment...