Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pride and the Passion (Kramer; United Artists) succumbs to a common failing in modern movies-the curse of unrestrained bigness. Mightily successful as sheer spectacle. The Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...
...more interested in gaining publicity than in gaining the best trial for their client; to braying Congressmen, who are more interested in "grassroots" support than in the welfare of their country. Finally, my morale will suffer not one whit if Girard is turned over to the Japanese courts. My pride in my country will, however...
...beginning to talk more openly about "solutions" for Algeria. None has been so outspoken as thin, hawk-nosed Raymond Aron, respected French political commentator and Sorbonne professor. In a slim book, The Algerian Tragedy, published last week and an immediate sensation in Paris, Aron argues that only false pride prevents Frenchmen from recognizing Algeria's "vocation" for independence...
...first seemingly startled by their boldness in turning out the established Liberal regime in favor of the untried Tories, Canadians last week showed a growing tingle of pride. Gloated the Ottawa Journal: "What opens before us is a vista of fresh political interest: new faces, new voices, new opportunities. For we had come to a perilous stagnation, for long the most politically lethargic, uncritical and inarticulate citizens in the whole democratic world." Author H. S. Ferns, a recent biographer of late Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King, saw a more fundamental change on the political horizon. Wrote he: "Mr. Diefenbaker...
...least seven leagues removed from the days when he followed his famed father in dueling along balustrades and skewering villains behind the arras, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., now a London boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with...