Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Falstaff was stymied. He tried a game of solitaire, but it came out; worked a cross-word puzzle, but it was a snap; cheered one Saturday for a Harvard upset victory, but only the experts found frustration (Falstaff was gloriously intoxicated and had a wonderful time). And still his hope gushed, so he found no frustration even in his many failures to achieve illusive melancholy. It was really bad news...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...
...freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals and hope against Stopes...
Gibb stated that the Committee's finding would "be published as a variety of reports in different fields of study." "No one person can discuss these various fields at this early stage, but we hope that all the findings will be pooled together in a final definitive report," he commented...
...many people in the so-called Christian west, science has become a faith in itself. If they have any hope of salvation, it is the salvation science can bring about through improvement of the natural world," the Rev. Newbigin postulated. It is this faith in the ability of men to change their world, opposed to the non-scientific beliefs of the Eastern religions, he said, which enable the science ethic to exist...