Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marxist. The Russian Revolution (1917) shook China with fear and hope. It gave Mao the simple answers he was looking for. Excitedly, he traveled between Changsha, Peking and Shanghai, doing odd jobs and organizing workers and students. In Peking he worked as a librarian and for the first time he sensed himself a proletarian. "I stayed in . . . a little room which held seven other peopie," he said. "I used to have to warn people on each side of me when I wanted to turn over . . ." He read the Communist Manifesto...
...largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...
...Stage (MARCH OF TIME) takes a brief look at both sides of the brassy street called Broadway-the mink-coated, white-tied and marquee-lighted side, and the darker lanes leading backstage to rehearsals where the work is done in drudgery, wild hope and exaggerated despair. Following the career of a young actress (Margaret Garland) who lands a minor role in the current hit Anne of the Thousand Days, this documentary shows Stars Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman going through rehearsals. It also takes a quick look at Director Jed Harris in the process of preparing Red Gloves, starring Charles...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell go prospecting successfully for laughs on an old western plot (TIME...
...Critic Ralph Thompson pointed out in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, there was nothing really so surprising about Douglas' victory. "Those who hope to qualify as No. 1 popular novelist," wrote Thompson, "had better follow the formula . . .1) operate within a historical, costumed setting, or 2) develop a devotional theme. The Big Fisherman does both. The Naked and the Dead does neither...