Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
...Mother Russia!" Hardworking, hard-fighting Russian soldiers found what they considered luxury even in the poor countries of southeastern Europe. They discovered, in the shambles of war, the leftovers of great comfort. They saw in the U.S. and British zones of Germany the signs of wealth and ease...
...comes as a shock that a segment of the public . . . [is] campaigning noisily against universal training. . . . Okay, mother. Okay, professor. Okay, parson. But are you willing to take the consequences, if you lead us into World...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
Already I feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...