Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
...Steppingstones. "If religion is a chariot, it looks as if the wheels on which it mounts towards Heaven may be the periodic downfalls of civilization on Earth. It looks as if the movement of civilization may be cyclic and recurrent, while the movement of religion may be on a single continuous upward line. The continuous upward movement of religion may be served and prompted by the cyclic movement of civilizations round the cycle of birth-death-birth...
Christianity's mission is "not to fear the social movement in the world, not to struggle purposelessly against it, but to spiritualize it and to try to cure it from the poison that has been mixed with it, the poison of hate...
...Laborites why he liked the Herald. Said Attlee: "We do not want a paper like those we see in some countries which just express the views of the government [or] a single man. . . . We want -and we have got-a paper that, while giving general support to our movement, allows for the expression of other points of view...
Pessimist: A nine-year upward movement is quite without parallel in American economic history. It must be near...