Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writes he: ''Americans, Americans, return to the first seed you sowed, to that glorious Declaration of Independence . . . You must now help solve the social problem between proletarian and capitalist nations, and the racial problem between white and colored peoples. The West would be doomed, and you eternally shamed, if you proved incapable ... of bringing that hope to the rest of the world...
...Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell...
...eyes were serene, the lips often smiling, but the words were blunt. "The glorious achievements of Chinese rule in Tibet," he said, were aimed at nothing less than "the extinction of the Tibetan race." In 1951 he had signed an agreement with Peking, but only to save his own people and only "at the point of bayonet." Even the official Tibetan seal affixed to the agreement was a forgery, and is still in Communist hands...
...Story (at the Metropolitan). This two-and-a-half hour film is an informative, comprehensive, unglamorized version of Katherine Hulme's novel about a Belgian girl's glorious failure in attempting to be a worthy nun. It should appeal to non-Catholics and non-believers as well as Catholics. The picture has a fine screenplay by Robert Anderson '39, firm direction by Fred Zinnemann, and beautiful color photography. Audrey Hepburn in the title role give a flawless performance; and more than able assistance is provided by Mildred Dunnock, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, and others...
...Tiger wants something bigger than this life has to give him. When he deliberately burns his books. Author Selvon makes his points: knowledge cannot be forced; the hero's road runs briefly day-to-day and not in one glorious sweep to the stars. Throughout, Author Selvon's Trinidad is vivid beyond any travel writer's account- drenched in sunlight, touching in its poverty, and flashingly alive in the near-calypso lingo of its hopeful, gossiping peasants...