Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty-Nine Steps (Gaumont-British) neatly converts its essential implausihility into an asset by stressing the difficulties which confront its hero when he tries to tell outsiders about the predicament he is in. A young Canadian named Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), he finds himself one evening, as the result of nothing more daring than a visit to a London music hall, entertaining in his fiat a girl who tells him that she is a counter-espionage agent protecting England from an international ring which is selling the secrets of the Air Ministry and that she has just committed a murder...
...needless to comment on the unfairness of this situation. Why should a man, just because he went to Groton, shoulder the responsibility for the drastic economies which confront the Council on every front this year? He should not have to spend sleepless nights because his failure to give has deprived some fellow of an education or prevented some much needed charity. No, the Rector had better file his application today...
...enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline, of the trial, and of the carrying out of the inevitable sentence, is nerve-rackingly exciting. Not the least skilful touch is the placing on the last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these is "a special dispatch to "The New York Times of July 2, 1924, which appeared under this headline: FRENCH ACQUIT & SHOT FOR MUTINY IN 1915; WIDOWS OF TWO WIN REWARDS...
Some object that this "priceless ingredient" is a rarity, that it is possessed only by those who are born orators, that to confront a yawning mob on a cold winter morning--or a restive one of a spring day--and fill them with a burning desire to investigate, say, the real reasons for the failure of the Paris Commune, requires long, particularized training...
...Walgreen showed her husband a mimeographed quiz for an English course which Lucille had brought home. Lucille was to take one of a list of quotations, discuss it as "a starting point from which to frame a new social policy for the problems which we now confront." Mr. Walgreen's eyes ran down the list, stopped in horror and amazement at a quotation from Russia's Primer by M. Ilin...