Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked more than a smile; she asked respect: "Whatever you do, do not give me your pity. No woman ever felt as proud as I do of the marvelous heritage of my own people . . . They had always maintained the right of the individual to his own liberty ... of his person and ... of his soul. . . Placed before the terrible choice of surrendering those rights or of dying in their defense, they never hesitated . . . Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...
...enjoy this kind of movie you have to be able to like some of the people involved-or at least to care what happens to them. Dick Powell is about the only person in the cast it is possible to like, and the longer the show goes on, the harder it is to believe that he has good sense. When he finally does come clean, his wife's reactions to the truth are unqualifiedly abominable, and remain so. But it is obvious-and hard to bear-that Dick and everyone else connected with the making of this movie regard...
...sages heard discussions of such topics as the Problem of the Person in Hinayana Buddhism, the Trivialization of Mathematical Logic, Entic Parallelism, and a Practical Philosophy of Cosmic Energy. Then Czechoslovakia's Arnost Kolman (who spent 30 years at Moscow University) rose to read a paper innocently entitled: "The Tasks of Contemporary Philosophy in the Struggle for the New Humanism...
...sincere and reasoned grounds were concerned, "I, a sincere liberal, take issue with Mr. Thackrey's reasoning . . . 1) because Mr. Wallace's own position is not always clear and because he, himself, does not always give the impression of being a sincere and reasoned person ... 2) the Progressive Party is Communist-dominated...
...Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked. She is a very loyal person...