Word: naturedness
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A Tale of Two Cities cost an even million dollars. Acknowledging in a formal "bibliography" on the screen its debt to Carlyle and other authorities on the period, it goes far beyond the limitations of the Dickens story. Director Jack Conway, whom Selznick says he chose because Conway is "a...
In the next few years Marx studied jurisprudence, Greek philosophy, Hegel, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Democritus and Epicurus, came into conflict with the Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost...
The Hill School and Princeton remember "Ted" Speers (Class of 1921) as a husky, good-natured footballer who took ten months off from his college course to serve with the A. E. F. After three years at Union Theological Seminary and an apprentice pastorate in a Manhattan Presbyterian chapel, Preacher...
U. S. readers seeking a vivid and imaginative Soviet novelist who could describe the wild and involved battles of civil war without lapsing into melodrama or propaganda found their man last year in Mikhail Sholokhov (And Quiet Flows the Don). In Seeds of Tomorrow Sholokhov has written the story of...
Two years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a moving, nostalgic novel of the Florida scrub, South Moon Under, in which proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with...