Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light marked this Caesar (Joseph Holland) well-his striding height, jutting chin, cross-belted military tunic, sleek modern breeches. Dark-shirted followers saluted him with uplifted right arms, sharp hails. Lights more benign singled out contemplative, poet-haired Brutus (Orson Welles), a reluctant, calmly-reasoning conspirator-an introspective idealist in a blue serge suit. No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears...
...Bruno Mussolini was this week discovered to be in active bombing service with the Rightist airforce in Spain. II Duce once remarked: "Bruno is an idealist and I let him do what he wants. In fact, I approve...
Premier Prince Konoye is a great talker, a great reader (especially Japanese translations of U. S. books), an internationalist, an idealist who believes in the redistribution of property. A bundle of nerves, he is so fussy about hygiene that he sprinkles alcohol on an apple before eating it. He is a devotee of Kabuki, the Japanese dance-drama. He likes wrestling matches but takes no interest in Japanese baseball. Like his son Fumitaka at Princeton he is fond of golf, took it up ten years ago, got his handicap down to nine, then dropped the game. He is ready, however...
...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...
Walter Connolly is excellent as "Million-Dollar-Wolf" Craig alternately roaring at and soothing his spoiled daughter, Belinda, played by Mary Taylor, looking even more charming than she does on the pages of "VOGUE." John Harvard presents a sensitive young idealist as Bus" Jones, the college communist. The best performance is that of Lionel stander, who will be remembered for his work in another Hecht and MacArthur film, "The Scoundrel." He fills the role of Muglia, Belinda's kidnapper, who can carry Lenin and Stalin in his coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which...