Word: inner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have sold out for years. Just recall the pathetic trash I have made month after month, year after year ... I am a decent enough man, not too bright perhaps, but impelled by some ideas as to conviction and principles. I was sustained by my inner determination to break...
...picture had changed considerably. I was no longer waiting alone in the vestibule. With me were no less than 17 other visitors, all more important than I. So I decided to try a desparate strategem. I entered the bedroom, closed the door behind me, and stalked into the inner chamber. "Fidel," I declared, in a voice that I hope sounded convincing, "my plane back to the states leaves in exactly one hour. (It actually was to leave the next morning.) May I have just five minutes of your time...
Gulped Tranquilizer. Next day, obviously in deep inner conflict, Hlasko declared: "I will be here a month or so, and then I will go back to Poland. I won't write any more. I'll get a job." Gulping a tranquilizer, he went on: "A writer without his country is nothing. Whatever the consequences, I'm going back. Good or bad, it's my country. I don't know from experience what will happen to me. When it happens, then I will have the experience...
Truce. In London the Tory Party's inner council reacted to news of Randolph's foray into Bournemouth like a military headquarters that has just learned of an enemy breakthrough. Party Chairman Lord Hailsham galloped off to Bournemouth posthaste. At week's end, in a tense, three-hour session with Bournemouth Tory leaders. Hailsham persuaded them to accept the hated Nigel Nicolson again, if a private postal poll shows that he would win a majority of the 7,500 Tory voters in the. constituency...
Separate Tables. A piece of superb showmanship by Playwright Terence Rattigan, the Barnum of the inner life, who exhibits some arresting emotional specimens in a seaside boardinghouse. Excellently acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Miller, Gladys Cooper...