Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lucky Stassen. He saw action as Halsey's observer during a naval engagement off Empress Augusta Bay, and began to be regarded as a sort of human charm: his ship was hit twice and frequently straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...Hothouse. The Norwegians wanted textiles, offered timber and wood pulp in exchange. Belgium wanted wheat for plate glass. Italy wanted metals for fruit and human labor. Every morning a truck delivered to the economists more than half a ton of paper which by nightfall was covered with figures and graphs recording Europe's needs and resources. In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads. The temperature neared 100° F. Sighed a policeman: "It sure takes guts to work in there...
...Came First. The only known visitor to the kappa country is Patient No. 23 in an insane asylum near Tokyo, who claims to have lived for months in the land of the kappa. No. 23 found the kappa pleasant, if unpredictable people, with their traditions often the reverse of human customs. They believe, for example, that the first kappa was a woman, who could not abide living alone. God pitied her and, taking her brain, created a male companion. His only instructions to the new couple were to eat, multiply and live as expansively as possible...
...attempt to convey the idea that nuns are human beings is doubtless laudable and sincerely undertaken. But considering the fact that Writer-Directors...
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made the excellent Colonel Blimp, it is surprising how little they get across, here, about human beings. The talk about the strange, compelling atmosphere of the place-a Lost Horizon routine in reverse -is just talk; lovely as some of the Technicolor photographs are, they bring little of the strangeness to the audience's eyes. Although some of the characters change, they change by sudden leaps & bounds, and without sufficient motivation...