Word: affectionate
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In unskilled hands, this moral fable might have been dully preachy. Director Capra's inventiveness, humor and affection for human beings keep it glowing with life and excitement. Stewart's warm-hearted playing of what might have been a goody-goody role is a constant delight. And if...
"It is clear that [the editor] wanted this to be a serious book and myself a pretty serious character. . . . Among the best things for me in film have been the clowns and the comedians, the dancers, the horses, the poets and the dolls. By the witness of these pages I...
No shadow of blame could be cast on George Marshall. In eleven months he had won the affection and respect of both Nationalist and Communist leaders, and the Chinese people. (Mrs. Marshall's graceful contributions had included teaching the austere Generalissimo to relax over Chinese checkers.)
"My words will pass from this scene like breath upon the winter air," he told glum Dutchess County Democrats. "And so they are unimportant, except to quicken the spirit of deep affection that Franklin Roosevelt inscribed in the hearts of his fellow men."
His words may have quickened the affection of men for F.D.R., but they did not quicken the hopes of his fellow Democrats. From Poughkeepsie, Jim Mead plodded on through the last days of his all but lost campaign. All around him lay the decay of the once-great organization which...