Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priest. Soon after this she dies; and Rochus feels obliged to redeem her pledge. Perplexed and without faith, he journeys to Rome. He feels there the overpowering force of the Catholic Church to the extent of pledging his life to her service, though he can never forget his love. Later, he is sent back to the hamlet that was his home and is expected to look upon the girl he was to marry with the saber eyes of a priest and not with the eyes of a lover...
...would have been easy for the director to make the love incidents into an over-luscious and trivial idyll, but instead he has managed to give them a distinct epic quality. Similarly, he might have reduced the religious emotion to the common denominator of funeral-parlor music and rapt faces photographed through gauze. Instead, the impressive pictures of St. Peter's and the deep chanting of the choir are allowed to tell their own story without sugar coating. This reviewer has never seen such an authentic setting-forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome...
...Massie (throwing herself hysterically into her husband's arms): Oh Tommy, what right had he to say I don't love you. Everybody knows I love...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
...stream of narrative encounters the leading characters, the stream is diverted until the story of each character is told. Though some characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise, a Dusseldorf banker, Pierre knows nothing but what his mother tells him, but the restless ambition in his blood testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though...