Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present demands that a Germany unified under free elections could be allowed to make any alliances it wants, (i.e. with NATO) are patently unacceptable to Russia. On the other hand, the West must insist on eventual free determination of an all-German government...
...seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunnar Bjornstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise in his mind with regard to either. It is between these two pure extremes that the knight, Max von Sydow, agonizes, the pain...
...does with all young Democratic Congressmen, Rayburn took Mills in hand early, gave fatherly advice and counsel. "Don't try to go too fast," he says. "Learn your job." Or: "Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about." Or still again: "If you want to get along, go along." By that he does not mean blindly sticking to the party line. He does mean living by the manners and morals...
...strong sense, Mills is Rayburn's right hand. As chairman of Ways & Means, Mills is responsible not only for tax writing, but for the program that Rayburn himself deems important above all others: reciprocal trade. This requires the most sensitive sort of judgment. Last year, for instance. Mills knew that a majority of his committee was willing to vote for reciprocal trade, then about to expire, as a permanent program. But he also knew that the House as a whole would not go that far and that if he tried for too much he might get nothing...
...seen in bistros in the 16th arrondissement with his pretty blonde prostitute girl friend. Marie-Thérèse Goyenetch, 22, nicknamed "Maïté." One day, as Maïté was leaving her small hotel near the Etoile, a man thrust a card into her hand, said: "There's money in it for you." The card bore the telephone number of Jean Lacaze, Dominique's brother...