Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Mountains. A priest, who was the only Japanese to see them after death, said that their faces were "serene, calm, clear"-a statement which those who have seen hanged men would regard as doubtful...
...esthete. Gide, Proust, Strachey, Rimbaud and other artists of a particularly tortured and susceptible nature are his inspiration; he draws none from more robust types such as Dickens, Trollope, Shaw, Dostoevsky, Thackeray. His artist is a creature entirely different from the rest of humanity-a fact that makes Connolly regard Mr. Shelleyblake's failure as something horrifying and unusual, as though it were not a common fate in all walks of life...
...know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism-espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal with anyone...
...Truman, the lioness of the evening, showed up fresh and glowing in white satin and orchids. She and her hosts -the family of Thomas J. ("Think") Watson-arrived 20 minutes after the curtain belatedly rose. After all this, the Metropolitan Opera got down to what it tried hard to regard as the point of the proceedings, Verdi's Otello...
...frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...