Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noel Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone. It tells the story of the lower-middle-class Gibbons family between Wars I & II. The film opens and ends with a fine Technicolor shot of the roofs of London. In the closing shot the roofs lie defenseless to the hell that is soon to crack them open. But by then, Coward has made clear how ready the people under the roofs are to endure the worst and to prevail against it. He shows this never through flat heroics, but through the quiet, immense courage, patience, kindliness...
...When you are down on your knees and scrubbing, this world of voices seems to lie a great distance above your head. You feel like a little child again, as a child takes for granted that there are bigger people always above her. . . . My muscles are working while they chatter, while they pose, disarranging their lives, striving perpetually to get things straight, yet merely disarranging matters more; while I, I am the person who is constantly straightening things out, keeping life fit to live...
...morning coffee and gossip. They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have made by realizing the worth of my floor ... I fall upwards into a social tantrum...
...hasty diagnosis might place the blame upon a growing lack of interest in the individual student by the various departments, but quite obviously the cause must lie far deeper. Very concrete factors, chiefly the shortages of both funds and qualified personnel, must take a sizable share of the responsibility. But neither of these is an insurmountable obstacle--the financial problem must necessarily remain as a difficulty ever-present, and can hardly be offered as an impassable barrier against any future progress; the question of personnel deficiency is essentially a short run matter. Both of these should be causes of temporary...
Dangerous Age. They decided-and the decision troubled them-that press freedom (meaning radio and movies as well as newspapers and magazines) is indeed in danger. It always had been, might always be: but the present danger seemed to lie within the press, not outside. They were amazed by the bigness and badness they had seen. Said the report...