Word: brotherhood
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...years, a brilliant departure by Producer-Director Vittorio De Sica from the tragic realism of Italy's best postwar films, including his own Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief. Still deeply concerned with man's inhumanity to man, De Sica this time accents the positive ideal of human brotherhood in a warm,exhilarating, richly comic picture...
...Brotherhood is the bunk," cried the little clergyman, "the most absolute nonsense. You Catholics out there--do you know the Jews are trying to take over this city? And the Protestants are helping them. Why, everyone knows that. Everybody knows that to be true. The Jews run the business end, and the Protestants, the religious. And this is supposed to be a Catholic city...
...enough merely to teach men to protect themselves. More important is to instill in them the Christian principle of helping others. "The object of the school," says he, "is not only to train men for intelligent leadership. It is to promote God's law on the dignity and brotherhood...
Permit me to offer a Protestant minister's appreciation . . . Articles of this quality do more to combat anti-Semitism than the sentimental "we're-brothers-under-the-skin" variety. The cause of brotherhood is advanced when the differences between Jews and Gentiles are recognized rather than slurred over...
...Eaubonne affects to have translated her novel from the 16th Century Flemish memoir of one Jan van Ster-teen, an atheistic painter who, toward the year 1595, met up in London with a traveling mountebank named Jonathan William Anthony Oldhorse. Oldhorse, a born leader, forms a blood-brotherhood between the Fleming, a gay young Frenchman named Marie-Jean-Pierre Saint-Benoist, and a pensive Jew named Jacob Keepjeke. They all agree to obey Old-horse to the death, and soon...