Word: torning
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...people accept gleefully for themselves and their children bloodguilt for the murder of the Christian Saviour." As one of many savage lines given the Jews, he cites the words of the High Priest Annas at the foot of the cross: "It would delight mine eyes to see his body torn by wild beasts...
Many Swedes, wrote Playwright Hjalmar Söderberg, are torn between "the desire of the flesh and the eternal loneliness of the soul," between short, delirious summers and interminable bitter winters of deep-country solitude. But Bergman's sense of inner division is so strong that once (or so he claims) he walked into a room, saw a standing figure, realized with terror that the figure was himself, his Doppelgaenger. Even the two sides of his face seem startlingly unrelated. The right side looks strangely dead, the left side vividly alive. And he can see much better with...
...nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though now and then touching, she is cynical and hard. "I don't forgive," she says, "even the ones who have done nothing to me." She was not ruined or misled; she was never sentimentally tempted or morally torn; the one time love came to her it was overwhelmingly physical; regret was not for being calculating but for miscalculating, not for her tarnished youthful past, but for its passing. She has not mellowed or grown; she has only grown older...
...windy man of God, a self-proclaimed "prophet" who raised the boy to go into the world to preach the Word. He especially charged him to baptize his city cousin, an idiot child whose schoolteacher father is a sweaty atheist. At the thought of this mission, young Tarwater is torn. An inner voice tells him that the old man was a fool or worse. He gets drunk, sets fire to the house, where the old man is still sitting dead at the breakfast table, and finally heads for the city...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose contributes The Cruel Day, a play set in revolution-torn Algeria. With Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Cliff Robertson, Phyllis Thaxter...