Word: caresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover. The photography and recording are good, but not the adaptation : Redemption might have been told with more continuity if less time had been wasted on photographic atmosphere. Typical shot: Gilbert jumping up against a garden wall in the moonlight to caress the hand of the heroine...
...respecter of the religious impulse, Mencken has some illuminating things to say about it: "Always, in time of bloodshed, pestilence and poverty, there is what theologians call a great spiritual awakening. But when peace and plenty caress the land the priest has a hard time keeping his flock at prayer, and great numbers desert him altogether. ... I am myself a theologian of considerable gifts, and yet I can no more imagine immortality than I can imagine the Void which existed before matter took form. Neither, I suspect, can the Pope...