Word: firmest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...
...Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though the Christian ethic generally holds to the Augustinian belief in the "just" war. But pacifism has usually found its firmest hold only within small sects, ranging from the Anabaptists of the Reformation to the Mennonites (of 389 Americans classified as religious objectors during World War I, 138 were Mennonites) to the Society of Friends...
Thus with Viva Maria!, which aims at being little more than a fancifully photographed tale of two turn-of-the-century dance-hall girls who cheer up a Latin American revolution, Moreau saw a chance of expressing one of her firmest beliefs. "Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women," she says. "Men like to think that women must be constantly jealous of each other, never trusting, never in rapport. That is not true, of course, certainly not today. This film could show that...
...Cheng almost constantly abed with a liver ailment, the issue seemed less in doubt. Chiang was made Minister of National Defense, a post for which he has long been preparing as Deputy Minister. In other shifts, the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Education were handed to two of his firmest allies, Cambridge-educated scientist-economist Li Kuo-ting and Yen Chen-hsing, a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. The older men they replaced were known to have leaned more toward Chen Cheng. To most observers, Little Chiang's new job was tantamount to his being named heir apparent...
Even Adenauer's firmest friends were alarmed to hear this staunch old democrat voice the essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets...