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...from an orphanage. Shortly thereafter she dies from a heart attack, leaving the weeping child to the care of the bereaved foster father. Then matters become totally lachrymose: the foster father does not want the child, but the child wants him. Even cheerful, extrovert William Bendix, knotting his Neanderthal brow, has a hard time making everybody stop crying...
...Emotionally I was reduced to a most primitive level of hope-fear. My feeling of apprehension and insecurity during the first operation was relieved by two factors: the authoritative, calm voice of the surgeon and the comforting physical contacts of [two women] physicians (who stroked my brow, pressed...
...moment, at least, he could once again attach some importance to matters irrelevant to war, less dynamic than politics. He could turn some attention again to poetry and art. He could applaud Actress-of-the-Year Ingrid Bergman, wrinkle his pseudo-Philistine brow over the re-emergence of Artist-of-the-Year Pablo Picasso, still full of invention and razzle-dazzle, still able to rouse resentment. He could view the discovery of streptomycin by Doctor-of-the-Year Selman Wakeman as something more than irony...
Many were dismayed to hear a top British leader denouncing compromise; but their gloom might be lightened by recalling that Laski does not lead the British Labor Party whose brow he inhabits. Although he has initiated many a successful leftist politician into the austere mysteries of "revolution by consent," as yet no public vote anywhere has ever elected Harold Laski to anything...
...accused in the dock were gripped by the horror they had created. Hess watched in tense fascination. Göring reddened when the film was three-quarters through, gazed fixedly at his lap until the film was over. Keitel mopped his brow and covered his eyes. Alfred Rosenberg, the philosopher, looked away frequently, nervously picked with his nails at splinters in the guard rail before him. Ribbentrop remained calm, shook his head in disbelief. Hans Frank, ex-Governor General of Poland, wept...