Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leftist (he was wounded in the Spanish Civil War), he nonetheless includes all leftist creeds among "the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those...
...witches with whom the witch-boy used to spend his time, riding around in the moonlight on eagles, that he wants to become a human and marry her. Warned by the Conjur Man that being human isn't easy, and enticed by the wiles of the girl witches, he nonetheless insists on becoming a man "with a soul." "You'll be sorry, witch-boy," wail the girl witches...
...fearful pictures of the captured Italian underground leader about to die from German torture, and if the man's screams were the only stunning use of sound in the movie, "Open City" would burrow deep into the memory. If its epic simplicity were its only virtue, it would nonetheless rank as a fine motion picture...
...editorial mouthpiece. Confronted with the party's corpse, he refused to call it suicide. It was murder, he cried. He demanded an autopsy, accused the La Follette brothers of killing the party "by kidnapping it into the realm of opportunism and expediency." A few breaths later, he nonetheless promised to support young Bob La Follette for re-election to the Senate "because of [his] distinguished record...
After Attlee's glowing comments re Churchill. Churchill is certainly wolfing the sheep by his nonetheless apt description [that Attlee is "a sheep in sheep's clothing"; TIME...