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When one of his debt-ridden colleagues had hanged himself, Scobie had insisted to the local priest that this suicide might be forgiven because, being a non-Catholic, the man did not know what he was doing. "If you or I did it, it would be despair-I grant you anything with us. We'd be damned, all right, because we know, but he doesn't know a thing." Scobie believed that his own suicide would eternally damn him-shut him off forever from the presence...
...himself between right or wrong, justice or chaos. We must withstand the tempters-in whatever gilded cups they may be serving the red wine of seduction-when they cry from the right or from the left: 'Put your ballot in our box and your sins will be forgiven.' Let us at this moment and in this place give the order to our innermost hearts: 'Germans to the Front...
...three was Grand Chief Engineer Johnston who, along with the trainmen's A. F. Whitney, was scornfully denounced by Harry Truman two years ago when the pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney has since forgiven Mr. Truman, and has announced that he will back him for renomination. Johnston is a Republican. He is a plain, blunt man who started his career as a callboy, vaguely resembles John L. Lewis, is publicly crotchety and privately pleasant...
Contrived as may be the plot of five assorted nationals who come to know each other and cooperate for a common cause, the film otherwise derives so much strength from its realism that the illogical coincidences are almost forgiven. The first striking device employed to lift the picture out of the depths in which American movies usually remain mired is the use of French, German, or Russian whenever they would ordinarily be spoken. While never employed so as to confuse the plot, the languages lend an authenticity that is seldom realized in motion pictures. Then, as the scene moves from...
...been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew and felt her own wretched state, nor for the meekness that she had because of it. Why then? Surely because she loved much. Here one can see what a silent contemplative love...