Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow, they said, east & west in China, in France and in Nebraska; they said it in devotion, fear and anger. Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, like the pealing of the city's thousand bells-Moscow, the shrine of the great new materialist faith, aspiring to be the new mistress of the world, was the most talked of city of the 20th Century...
...time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy, calls him "the best wit, the best extemporaneous comedian I know." Edgar Bergen, a very thoughtful fellow among professional comics, dogmatically says that Fred is "the greatest living comedian . . . a wise materialist who exposes and ridicules the pretensions of his times...
...them. He finds bleak comfort in the thought that as yet no universal state has been imposed despite Napoleon's attempt, and two attempts by the Germans. But from the vast design and complex achievement of A Study of History one hopeful meaning stands out: not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history. The action takes place within the amphitheater of the world and the flux of time; the real drama unfolds within the mind of man. It is determined by his responses to the challenges of life; and since his capacity for response is infinitely...
...Materialist Vishinsky heard Msgr. Joseph F. Flanelly denounce "impious and rank materialists." After Mass Vishinsky bowed, smiled and warmly clasped the hand of the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre. The new Russian line might turn out to be long or short, straight or crooked, but it was surely being drawn in crayon with a heavy hand...
...Cleopatra" never begins to take shape. At every moment it seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra...