Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former is a conscious fault; recognized by the man as such, which he thoroughly regrets and resolves not to commit again; the latter an excused fault, condoned by himself, and therefore likely to be repeated. Such a fault may be small, but small faults gradually dim the keenness of discrimination between right' and wrong. Well did the old testament singer exclaim, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines...
Volpone† is a money-hugging voluptuary who lies in bed groaning and pretending to be dying. Seeing him so, his companions in coin-clutching, each hoping to be made his heir, come to his bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality...
COQUETTE-Helen Hayes in the true tragedy of a small-town belle whose father causes her to commit suicide after her lover has seduced her (TIME...
John Baskett is responsible for an edition of the King James Version. This work was far from accurate. The seventh commandment, as corrected ,by Mr. Baskett, read simply "Thou shaft commit adultery"; his edition, which was soon suppressed, became famous as "the basketful of errors...
Primanerliebe. Two German youths, irked by family and college discipline, commit suicide. That is all. Filmed in Germany, directed by Robert Land, it lasts almost an hour and is well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo...