Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The American attitude towards marriage between Korean subjects and American personnel was, and still is, extremely harsh. Those hardy enough to apply for permission to marry are required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight...
In three years, Mindszenty had risen rapidly from parish priest to Prince-Primate. The church knew it was entering a fateful struggle in Hungary. Mindszenty was inexperienced, with little knowledge of the world or of diplomacy. He had, however, two assets that must have recommended him to the Vatican: 1...
That was the Mindszenty the Communists arrested. Nobody had pressed him into his dangerous opposition. He had not fooled himself into thinking he was safe. He had taken, out of his own unyielding character, the uphill road to martyrdom.
In "Wake of the Red Witch" Republic Pictures has done everything possible-to make these critics sublimely happy. The picture oozes tragedy from every pore. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, turns out right. The hero, that usually indestructible character, blunders into a hopeless jam and ends his days being squeezed into...
All in all, "Rogue's regiment" is a pretty poor slice of life in the raw. The plot is hyper-complicated, provides for but one pier six brawl, and leaves enough loose ends around to knit a pair of argyle socks. People are killed aimlessly for the sheer desire to...