Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino citizen is complex. He is an islander but not a seafarer. He is loyal, excitable, bright, fiercely jealous and brave. Eighty percent of him live in raised, thatched, nipa-palm huts. He rises each damp dawn to blow his breakfast fire to life and smoke a rolled "toosh-toosh" (homemade cigar). Every day he faces hours of weary plowing behind his lazy carabao (water buffalo). He beefs about the land still held by the Catholic Church, his taxes, the reformed constabulary, the Chinese who are his shopkeepers, and about his fortunes-which he often hocks for a sensational funeral...
...first 1,100 Yanks who went to Oxford that way (The American Rhodes Scholarships, Princeton University Press; $2). Had Rhodes scholarships produced a batch of Anglophiles? Aydelotte thinks not. Says he: "The American Rhodes scholar learns to respect his country as the jingo never does. He learns to be jealous of her action in those things that matter...
Britain's Foreign Office, which has always kept a jealous eye on the "gateway to India," remained mum, the War Office referred callers to the India Office, the India Office said: "No importance...
Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...
...mere presence threatens the audience's capacity for belief. Lana Turner is a very highly charged and appealing girl, but too much in this role is far beyond her experience, her understanding, even her sincerely overworked imagination; her only fine, authentic moments, barring one searing flare of jealous hatred, are casually domestic and flirtatious. Much of the Turner-Garfield dialogue, which needs the flickering intensity of adders' tongues, is paced and keyed like an erotic discussion between a couple of cats. Finally, a kind of overall rigor artis of anxiety, sincerity and division of purpose chops the scenes...