Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanamaker is an Italian-American laborer, Loa Padovani his wife and bearer of his four children, and poverty a regular tenant in their tenement apartment, in this adaptation of Pietro di Donata's "Christ In Concrete." Miss Padovani portrays calm acceptance and dogged belief almost perfectly and Kathleen Ryan, as Wanamaker's mistress, symbolizes the world in which right and wrong give way to strong and weak. Mr. Wanamaker lets himself be torn in two between the philosophies admirably; his final decision brings the film's conflicts out with clarity and force...
...hatchet-faced man was there; he was wise, calm, and paternal...
...tiny black speck as he walked stiffly up the marble staircase to the red-canopied pulpit. Said Insomniac Cripps: "When in the stillness of the night we face the tremendous dangers of the modern world, let us listen for the still small voice of God which can instill courage, calm and strength into our hearts . . . Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow I die . . . may smack of boldness and bravado, but it is singularly unconvincing in the still small hours of the night...
...months, while the Caribbean echoed to plots, shots and abortive invasions, the Organization of American States and its predecessor, the Pan American Union, had tried one stopgap measure after another to calm the situation. Last week the O.A.S. stopped stalling. In one brisk, four-hour session, its council: 1) invoked the Rio treaty of inter-American defense, 2) ordered a showdown investigation of the whole Caribbean mess, and 3) prepared to call a meeting of all 21 American foreign ministers, if necessary...
...claims to be a friend of the church but ... is bound sooner or later to reveal itself as an enemy of the church?" When this question was put to Earth, reports Hauge, he replied that "in such a situation, it would be important for the Christian to preserve his calm and his sense of humor . . . When a state begins to exhibit the marks that Christians recognize as belonging to the Beast from the Abyss, they must not rush to embrace the extreme alternatives of submission or martyrdom...