Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper on "The Responsibilities of Naval Leadership" in verse and in the meter of a French ballade. At school and throughout his Navy career, Wouk held fast to Jewish law and custom. On the Liberty ship taking him to the Pacific in 1942, Wouk often ate nothing but bread and potatoes, because the ship's menu was dominated by pork. One day he posted a satirical poem on the bulletin board...
...quite an ordeal. "I used to eat six eggs and half a loaf of bread for breakfast," he wistfully recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down...
...future. First the Yugoslav-the "blood mother"-recites in flashbacks the tormenting story of her partisan husband's death at the hands of the Nazis, the murder of her two daughters, the abduction of the child, and finally, her internment in Auschwitz. Then the German-the "bread mother"-tells her moving history of the adoption of the boy, her struggles against the invading Russians, and at last, the peace that surrounded her family's life before a United Nations repatriation team discovered...
...tribute to the candor and restraint of the picture that most moviegoers will be reluctant to decide for themselves between the blood and the bread mother. Explains the Chief Justice (Alexander Knox): The law books do not serve in such a case, for justice defeats itself if in its application the good are made to suffer...
Cornell Borchers and Armin Dahlen are excellent as the bread parents. So is the blood mother, Yvonne Mitchell, who carries the memory of the concentration camp in her brooding face. The ten-year-old boy is Michel Ray, who comes off as a fine trouper...