Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Informer" can be thought of in terms of sin and redemption, the redemption coming in the last agonies of death. The end comes in a church, where Gyppo obtains forgiveness from the dead man's mother, and with a cry of what may be ecstasy as well as pain, dies. The psychological, religious, and metaphysical themes are deeply intercating, but on top of everything, "The Informer" is a great and dramatic story...
...stationery of the Harvard Crimson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to his mother: "I know what pain I must have caused you and you know I wouldn't do it if I really could have helped it-mais tu sais, me voilà! That's all that could be said. I know my mind, have known it for a long time, and know that I would never think otherwise. Result: I am the happiest man just now in the world; likewise the luckiest. And for you, dear Mummy, you know that nothing can ever change what we have always...
...with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
Only once did Pat O'Brien let his real suffering slip past his lips: "Science is wonderful . . . but I sometimes envy my ancestors who died too early to know how painfully life can be prolonged." Last week, at 59, Pat O'Brien's pain ended...
...humor -- sometimes tempered with sophistication, cynicism, or satire, but invariably funny as hell. No one knows precisely what makes people laugh. Benchley's theory is that "all laughter is merely a compensatory reflex action to take the place of sneezing." If this is true, Benchley must be an awful pain in the neck for the manufacturers of Kleenex, a product which would have alarmingly small sales among the devotees of "Sly Old Bob"--as Benchley coyly refers to himself...