Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future role of his church in Germany, Father Roth has positive ideas: "First, the church should be more active in social welfare. Secondly, we must find the possibility for the closer approach of the two confessions [Catholicism, Protestantism] to each other with the smallest emphasis on differences. Thirdly, we must lead the life of the Catholic Church out of the purely traditional to the convincing and important task of awakening man's love for his fellow...
Semi-professional criticism is offered in the few creative writing courses available, but the courses lack the aid of a creative artist to teach either prose on poetry, although Schwartz and Kempton come closer to the mark than Morrison or Spencer. The chief shortcoming in this field is the limited number of students that can be accomodated in the few courses given...
...main political effect of the coal crisis, industrial shutdown and the blizzards and floods has been to draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...
...movie, Eisenstein has also fought shy of realism. All of his characters, their faces and their gestures are superhuman rather than human. Most of the action takes place as closely within palace walls as if the cameras had been confined to a theater stage. The lighting, too, is closer to florid Russian theater than to cinema...
...does indeed, as he once ruefully admitted in seven words that catalogue his complete attitude toward his work: "This drudgery, this sham, this gold mine." Actually, after the tax collectors and the 60 members of his cast are paid off, Allen's gold mine yields him closer to $2,000 a week...