Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also and primarily for the sake of the contribution he may make to his own realization and development." The authors are optimistic: "It is possible to identify a posture more constructive than handwringing . . . The truth is that never in our history have we been in a better position to commit ourselves wholeheartedly to the pursuit of excellence...
...some girls, and not engaged to some girls, if you know what I mean. And some of them weren't the kind I'd 've taken to the country club. But with the exception of your daughter, all of them were white." The heroine tries to commit suicide; the lieutenant spends the rest of the picture trying to kill the sergeant. In the book they both succeeded, but in the picture the girl survives to exemplify the moviemakers' striking contribution to contemporary sociology-a general solution for the social and emotional problems of the mulatto...
...Parliament met, U Nu made his deal with the left-wingers by ordering high-treason charges dropped against two Communist Deputies who had been in jail a year awaiting trial. His bland explanation: both men had said they were sorry they had done wrong and had promised not to commit treason again. With U Nu's victory assured, the tension of the past weeks abruptly vanished in a flood of Burmese euphoria...
...Hadley Chase-but Director Denys de la Patellière has prepared it to the king's taste. He tells the story of a wealthy drunk (Peter Van Eyck) who one day informs the greedy salope (Michele Morgan) to whom he is married that he is going to commit suicide in a few minutes. But if he does that, she realizes instantly, she will not be able to collect the 300 million francs for which his life is insured. "You will have only a few hours," he adds dryly, reading her thoughts, "to disguise my suicide as a murder...
...tentative answers to most of the questions: "It would have to be a very big limited war, or one that broke out in several parts of the world simultaneously, for us not to be able to cope with it." Special problem, still unresolved: civil war where the U.S. cannot commit its own forces, yet cannot afford to let a Communist-backed faction...