Word: grit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRUE GRIT. What would otherwise be just another formularized western comedy is saved by John Wayne's best performance in a decade...
Hemingway verged on it in his later novels; Presidents Roosevelt and Eisenhower accomplished it in their later speeches. John Wayne charges into it in his latest movie, True Grit. Like all consummate stylists, he remains unharmed. Only the enemy is hurt...
...TRUE GRIT would be nothing but another creaky western comedy except for a superb, self-mocking performance by John Wayne, who at 62 has never seemed more like The Duke...
...another, more basic way. He has not been a man devoid of self-doubt for some time. Now this burden could grow heavier, as he compares the Kennedy standard as it was passed to him and its present condition. Can he be sure of his own judgment and grit? He himself acknowledged the dilemma last week when he quoted from J.F.K.: "The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul...
...TRUE GRIT is a creaky Western comedy that features a lot of painful cracker-barrel dialogue and a superb, self-mocking performance by John Wayne, who at 62 has never seemed more like The Duke...