Word: celt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada has had a price-control apparatus for two years, but only last month (TIME, Oct. 27) did it get power, and only last week did it get a Leon Henderson. To the chairmanship of the Wartime Prices & Trade Board went a dynamic, burly, black Celt, Donald Gordon...
Although it is as dramatically incoherent as life itself, How Green is a radiant idyll of the dignity and charm of honest, simple working people. Well acted by a competent, unstarred cast, the picture is a credit to Director Ford, who is himself a big, rumpled, modest Celt (Irish) with a tidy mind, rock-ribbed integrity and a talent for turning out superb pictures (The Informer, Arrowsmith, Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach). It is also his last picture-for the present. He is now on active duty with the U.S. Navy...
Teuton or Celt, or whatever...
Rarer is the separate starring vehicle which Shaw devised for himself. This is an eight-minute prologue in which the wily, bewhiskered old Celt appears on the screen to reveal that while the rest of the democratic world has been sleeping, he has been building his own arsenal of democracy. Impudent, goading, compassionate, it is a masterful bit of acting, unsurpassed by the performances which follow. Excerpts...
...South. Thanks to their inability to analyze reality, and to the whole paternalistic structure, Southerners recognized no such conflict; and politics remained "a theatre for the play of the purely personal, the purely romantic, the purely hedonistic." Nor did the Anglican tradition of religious tolerance appeal to that fierce Celt-blooded primitive. He required "a faith as simple and emotional as himself." By Jackson's time the power of the evangelists over the whole Southern mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism...