Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erhardt himself plays Andrew Undershaft, and does so forcefully. However, I would question his interpretation. Undershaft should be an obnoxious man. When the audience is forced to admit that what he says is true, it should be regretfully, as Shaw puts it, "with a pain in the self-esteem." We should begrudge the nobility of Undershaft's thought. As Erhardt played the role, his manners were already too noble, his voice too Stentorian...
...Hours of Love is the latest evidence of the low esteem in which Italian moviemakers hold matrimony. Unlike Divorce-Italian Style, Marriage -Italian Style, and the other changes that have recently been rung in Italy on the dissolubility of marriage, Hours is not trying to be funny so much as ruefully amusing. And it succeeds fairly well, thanks mostly to French Actress Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) and Ugo Tognazzi, one of Italy's busiest actors...
...Motives, that ought to urge me to hard study? The Desire of Fame, Fortune and personal Pleasure. A critical Knowledge of the Greek and Roman and french Poetry, History and Oratory, a thorough comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial, and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (tho possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of Clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the Increase...
...Desire of Fame, Fortune and personal Pleasure. A critical Knowledge of the Greek and Roman and French Poetry, History and Oratory, a through comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (the possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the increase of my fortune...
...Washington press corps likes to picture itself battling heroically for the news against a secretive enemy - the U.S. Government. Writing in this month's Harper's, Washington Correspondent Joseph Kraft finds that picture highly flawed. "For the usual reasons of self-esteem," says Kraft, "the news community clings to the conventional notion of a 'free and independent press' arduously 'digging out' information 'without fear or favor' over the enraged shrieks of a monolithic Government. In support of that myth, prizes are awarded every year to the diminishing handful of journalists, usually from...