Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stout, amiable Joseph Pholien, a lawyer who helped found Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
Fresnay's anguished conscience struggles against his growing sense of mission and pride of accomplishment. The islanders persuade him to complete the imposture by celebrating a Mass. Before he can go through with it, a priest (Jean Brochard) arrives from the mainland, touches off a conflict that brings the movie to an end in a final surge of dramatic power...
Miracle look artless and crude. Director Jean (Symphonic Pastorale) Delannoy can also take credit for the rare cinematic feat of evoking deep religious feeling without sugar & molasses. His constant perception of the story's human values, and Actor Fresnay's superbly sensitive playing make God Needs Men the best foreign-language film to reach the U.S. in at least a year...
Ever since Jean-Jacques Rousseau set the style with his gloom-drenched Confessions, it has been widely taken for granted that no autobiography is really honest unless it is unremittingly conscience-stricken. When a poet such as Britain's Stephen Spender prefaces the story of his life with the statement: "I have tried to be as truthful as I can," readers can be pretty sure that the author is going to whip himself naked through the streets at the tail...
Others include Alfred Kazin, author and critic from New York; David McClel and, professor of Psychology at Wesleyan; Jean T. McKelvey, professor of Labor Relations at Cornell; Paul E. Sultan, professor of Economics at the University of Buffalo; and Julius S. Bixler, President of Colby College, who will teach American philosophy...