Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself -the Lost Generation expatriates running away from themselves in Paris and Spain-that sometimes stumbles, as if Producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Director Henry King had decided that the best way to condense the novel on film would be literally to shoot the action and dialogue in well-chosen chunks. Half the book is better than none, but the over-all effect is jerky. Nonetheless, in its best sequences, Sun shines more brilliantly than anything of Hemingway's ever filmed before...
...Kings & Trumps. Arab unity, insofar as it exists at all, exists only against something. Last week events in Syria drove other Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
...powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality of ideas can now be provided to Diaspora Jewry only by Israel. Rabbis may preach the theory of the chosen people and believe in it, but the Jewish member of an American golf club does not believe in it. If Jewish people in the Diaspora cannot find a new source of pride and self-respect, they will collapse psychologically. That is where Israel comes in. But it is dependent upon real...
...office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules of the game, the reader should not be obliged to worry about them without benefit of laughter. An additional liability...
...Christ is not the very meaning of the world, then the body of an executed felon by the roadside is more significant than a crucifix . . . Christian art was an answer; his art is a question. The Mocking is a pathetic subject but not a ridiculous one because Jesus has chosen to be mocked. The garrotted victims of the Inquisition have not chosen the pointed cap that shakes in their agony; the laughter of soldiers before a tortured body is a question because the body did not choose to die." Goya, Malraux concludes, "was the most eager for the absolute...