Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dramatic truthfulness is an unique manisfestation of human genius," Walter stated, but like Goethe's, it is not a revolutionary but a mere "harmonious type of human genius that in every new work makes a conquest in a new sphere, in a new phase of superhuman creative form...
...painstakingly sidestepped one of the most overworked angles of current westerns with excellent results. Where the hero generally announces his fast draw in the first scene and proceeds to prove his point for ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that...
...slight, mild-mannered journalism instructor from Missouri stepped ashore at Shanghai. His fellow passengers piled into rickshas, but he could not bring himself to ride behind a human beast of burden. He walked to his hotel...
...week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that it is because God has not given us enough votes! ... To have such power and not use it is certainly to be wicked and unprofitable servants, good for nothing except to be cast into outer darkness...
...caption warns the audience, straight off: "This is the story of a scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan...