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Your questions about "starvation," living conditions, and sanitation are quite easily answered. In Canton I saw two beggars. Up to now, after 3 1/2 months in Peking, I haven't seen one beggar. I made it a point to ask each tricycle driver (taking the place of rickshaws) his opinion of the present government. Without exception, everyone of them happily answered that it is now much better. Their main reasons are that there are no more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned...
...Love. At Yverdon, he also taught other things, some of them not so obvious in the modern pedagogical scheme. In caring for his children, he soon made himself almost as poor as they, living "like a beggar in order to learn how to make beggars live like men." He could not pass a poorer man without giving something away, even if all he had to give was a buckle from his shoes. A Christian who had been influenced by the teachings of the Swiss reformer, Huldreich Zwingli, Pestalozzi had learned that lesson from the New Testament...
Some of the local color is pretty fine, e.g., the date plantations of the hinterland, street urchins sardonically shoeshin-ing the bare feet of a beggar, the Arabian sun driving a whole town close to frenzy. The story itself serves up the melodrama hot and mostly straight...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...
...sits silently while she babbles and drinks his wine until she falls into a stupor. When she finds herself pregnant, she is fanatically certain that she has been chosen for a holy birth. Scorned and humiliated by the villagers, thrown out of her cliff-dwelling by a grotesque beggar, she climbs into the mountains, where she bears her child alone in vivid pain and religious exaltation. Despite his apparent sincerity, some may question Rossellini's taste. But parts of his film look as frighteningly real as anything he has done...