Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brinton, in his newest book, "From many One," added that he felt that "if the historian were to turn book-maker, he would be obliged to say that the odds against the world federationalists are prohibitive and astronomical...
Rather than postponing the inevitable comparison, it can be said right now that the new Dickens movie, "Nicholas Nickleby," is not nearly so good as its exciting predecessor, "Great Expectations." That is not to say that it isn't worth going to see; it will be rewarding to Dickens devotees and to those who are willing to sit through ninety minutes of almost incessant gloom and confusion, through which only glimpses of the fine acting and the story can be dimly seen...
Producer Sam Goldwyn had his say in the Screenwriter: "What bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...
This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...
Literary Legends. The friends of James who published their reminiscences of him after his death-especially Ford Madox Hueffer-romanticized, to say the least. Nowell-Smith has taken incidents and opinions and anecdotes from a hundred-odd sources-H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett -and assembled them in the form of a dossier. The result is as absorbing as a good mystery story...