Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people of the Southern States are extremely susceptible to Fascist doctrines; they show a strong liking for Fascist methods and violence. I do not believe a great deal of time and effort would need to be expended to convert a majority of these people to the Fascist faith. This having occurred, what then might not befall America...
...starry-eyed actress refuses to accept a Joan willing to compromise, to achieve her mission by working with evil men. The more hard-headed director, a typically Anderson dialectician, defends such a conception, and redefines the actress' idea of "faith." All set to throw up her role, the actress discovers, while rehearsing the final scenes, a Joan intransigent enough to die for her beliefs-and settles for that, with the director, as the true test...
...philosophical overtones about faith-which blot out the earlier and sharper issue of compromise-Joan of Lorraine is too trickily written, too full of backstage triviality, too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt. Yet Joan's story, even when told piecemeal and with no particular eloquence, can still vibrate when enacted by someone suggesting Joan's stature-as Actress Bergman proves...
...committee last week decided that they did not. To a conference of educators at Columbia's Teachers College, the University of Chicago's Stephen M. Corey, head of the committee, reported: "The assumption seems to have been that 'genius will out.' The committee believes this faith unjustified...
Thomas' poetic ancestors include druids, sun worshipers, fertility ritualists, wizards of Welsh folklore, psalmists and hymnists, the Bible. To this complex half-pagan, half-devout inheritance, Thomas has added more up-to-date influences-the intense experience of his boyhood in the Welsh countryside, his passionate faith in the Freudian conception of life as a struggle between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle...