Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Giraudoux and adapted by Maurice Valency, Ondine is a prime and welcome example of the variety possible on the stage. Unlike T.S. Eliot, Giraudoux does not couch his parable in obscurity, but is quite willing to spell out the point of the play: that man must accept and respect human limitations. When exposed to superhuman love and devotion-like that of the water sprite ondine-even a knight errant finds that his shining armor becomes rusty. He is neither worthy nor capable of returning complete love. Having only this simple "message" to comprehend, the playgoer can approach his evening...
...find in coming back after long absence, is still the vigorous tradition itself, felt by all of us in our time, which says that learning is the serious business as well as the genuine excitement of life. No one who stays long at Harvard can fail to feel or respect this, nor having experienced it, ever again be quite the same as he was before. It is a very good thing again to be associated with the work of Harvard College...
...Oldfield, the most beautiful actress of the time, gave him an annual allowance. Well aware that political favor was all important for his subsistence, ho made no qualms about forgetting his Tory sentiments, and often curried the favor of a potential Whig patron, at the negligible expense of self respect...
...famed French painter, is that rare product from the film industry, a work of rich, individual temperament. As he made clear in Grand Illusion (1938) and The River (1951), Director Renoir is often too full of beautiful things he wants to say to pay a decent respect to how he says them. Bad scenes stand out glaringly against the fine features of his films. The story sometimes has to snore in the parlor while Renoir fondly lingers to adjust an esthetic or intellectual spit curl. All the same, his pulsing joy in all he feels and sees sweeps through...
Intelligence Officer Montagu had complete respect for his German opposite numbers. To fool them, the bluff would have to be consummately prepared. "Major William Martin" got not only a foolproof identity card. He carried a picture of "Pam," the girl he was "engaged" to, her last touching love letters, stubs of theater tickets, a dunning letter from a bank, a letter from his "father" and the usual pocket impedimenta. His identity-card photograph was that of a man who looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were...