Word: carnet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George C. Shattuck, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine, Emeritus, and a strong superior of Moral Rearmament last night invited the whole PBH carnet to a special meeting as his home to give them "some idea" of MRA as "a positive ideology capable of uniting men of all races, creeds, and nations...
...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...