Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop sniped at Dulles and Chicago Publisher John S. Knight clamored for his resignation. Columnist David Lawrence noted: "If ever a man should be loved for the enemies he has made, it is John Foster Dulles...who believes that the U.S. should be guided by its conscience in world affairs and should not encourage gangsterism or the exploitation of weak and undeveloped countries by imperialists. He is convinced that moral force can win the support of right-thinking people throughout the world, and that meanwhile a strong military force, capable of massive retaliation...
...with David's pupils dilated and fixed-usually a sign of death-the diseased section of aorta was cut out. In its place, Surgeon Braunstein and assistants began stitching in a graft, donated by a man who had died two months earlier, which was then freeze-dried. At 8:55 the stitching was finished. Fourteen pints of blood had been used. There was still no sign of a heartbeat or of life in David's eyes. The clamps were removed. Then the seemingly unbelievable happened. Says Dr. Mahajan, who was still massaging David's heart...
...took another hour to close the surgical wound. Within that hour David moved his arms, opened his eyes. This week the boy whose heart stopped for 2¾ hours was making a good recovery...
...Pignanoli, in his paper. La Liberta. "Inquisition!" cried the party-lining Socialist paper, Avanti!. "It seems to us that a dying man should be able to choose for his tombstone the symbols he believed in while he lived, whether they are religious or political. What about the Star of David over tombs of Jews? And lamps which illuminate the headstones of free thinkers...
...David Lean's direction is marred only by too slow a pace: the film did not need to run quite so close to three hours. He made brilliant use of the genuine tropical jungle against which the film was made. Scenes of marching men, jungles, hills and rivers are all tremendously effective in their CinemaScopic splendor, and the bridge goes up with a rousing blast. Moreover, every frame is closely bound up with the story: spectacle complements action instead of interfering with...