Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked out this year, the 'official funds' to be paid by one mu [one-sixth of an acre] of land actually exceed the value of the total crop which that mu can yield. As a result, nobody in the village will accept any land, even as a gift. So land is going idle...
Despite these debilities, the play is retrieved and made fit for viewing by several considerations. One is that it takes a lot of inept handling to obscure the dramatic facts of Joan's career. Another is Maxwell Anderson's amazing gift of producing a flow of facile, taut dialogue. Finally, the cast is enthusiastic and, in the main, knows its craft. Madge Evans, despite a vigorous between-acts clawing from the Bergman acolytes, is fluent, intent on what she's doing, and very good to look at: and Richard Crouch is quick, practical, and harried as a stage manager...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
...favored him with other miracles (in 1468 his prayers saved the town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...
...escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor. Pip sets out for London to learn to be a gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham...