Word: individualist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, part pulp dramatics, part pure action, is that hardy perennial about the squadron commander (John Wayne); his friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together...
...struck the Kremlin's eastern battlements. Churchill who has dressed for dinner virtually every night of his adult life, wore his zippered overall "siren suit." What prompted him to wear it, what protests from Sawyers he overruled, he alone knew. Moscow wondered, decided finally that he was an "individualist...
...individualist again that during his last few hours in Moscow Churchill called for another appointment with Stalin. He was closeted with the Premier from 9 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. A few hours later, in a drizzling rain, he climbed back into his bomber...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...
...does he expect to lose his crusade against the featherbeds. He ran the T.P. & W. efficiently with 35% smaller train crews than the rules require. As the labor shortage gets worse, the lesson is bound to spread. Whether Individualist McNear regains his prestige or not, the featherbed rules are losing theirs fast...