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...decide to become tower builders in Babel. George (John Lithgow), May (Deborah May) and Jerry (Treat Williams) open an elocution school in Hollywood to prep silent stars for the talkies. Jerry riffles through people like a deck of cards, May has the patience of Florence Nightingale, and George is purer than the infancy of truth and madder than his true love (Julia Duffy). Through simple unpollutable honesty, George becomes chief of staff to a manic-depressive studio mogul, Herman Glogauer. George S. Irving plays this role as if he were a Yiddish Mussolini...
Through intense suffering our country [Russia] has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music...
...themselves Semites. One political cartoon in the influential al Ahram pointedly advised Begin: "Don't make excuses. We are not antiSemitic. We are anti-you." The affair became slightly farcical when the Cairo press fell to speculating over whether the Egyptians were not in fact an older and purer strain of the Semitic family than the Israelis. Then Sadat announced that he had no objection to observing "a quiet period" after so much angry rhetoric; the anti-Israeli press campaign ended almost instantly...
...repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself for something of a purer, more aesthetic...
...pilgrimage is considered the most fortunate moment of one's life, the time when one can travel to the Blessed City asking for God's forgiveness, hoping for complete forgiveness of one's sins and transgressions. Thus men's sheets and women's dresses are usually white, signifying a purer rebirth of the soul...