Word: freest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia, there was no real need for gloves. The country had a Soviet-style election. Every voter had his choice -of one candidate. Premier Klement Gottwald called his election "the freest in the world." However, anybody who turned in a blank ballot would be considered a traitor. (The Reds...
Edmund Gwenn, veteran character actor that he is, gets the freest of reins in this innocuous little film--and he overacts his way magnificently through the role of an irascible old Scottish sheepherder, soaked in Scotch and fighting a losing battle with a heather-clogged accent. Plot concerns a couple of rival dogs, the annual sheepherding trials, and dastardly murders (of sheep) by one of the aforementioned canines...
Says Biographer Brod: "Of all believers [Kafka] was the freest from illusions, and among all those who see the world as it is, without illusions, he was the most unshakable believer...
...free is the "freest press in the world?" Who can get a hearing in it, and who cannot? Is its freedom really in danger? Is it giving the country the kind of service that the times require...
...policies and thinking, points in the direction of the freest possible use of radio for the purpose of keeping the public fully informed on both sides of all questions...