Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadians thought Canada had her head in the sand. Said the Montreal Gazette: "Elementary geographical considerations dictate the significance that the Petrópolis treatymakers will attach to Canada's signature to the hemispheric defense act. Without Canadian acceptance . . . the pact will be largely ineffective except as a statement of good intention...
...reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer no, he might regard absence of chocolates as the chief characteristic of sexuality. In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures...
...Then I am your servant and no more your master. ... He who lays down his liberty in that act receives it back. Go down to Mother Kirk...
...time debuts. They chipped in $25 apiece to cover costs, and, for the use of its 260-seat basement auditorium, gave the Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church a share in their company. Hieber got a veteran Broadway actor, Max Leavitt, to teach his singers how to act. Leavitt, in turn, gave the company a name. "Let's serve lemonade," he proposed, "and call it lemonade opera...
...nothing visually fancy about it, and nothing notably original; its beauty rests on its simple and impassioned use of basic principles which most studios have abandoned or emasculated. It is devoted to that fundamental of movie reality: picturing the way that places and things and people really look and act and interact, and making the information eloquent...