Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations behind the Iron Curtain. Added Dwight Eisenhower at his midweek press conference: the "best role" for the U.S. is to "try to be understanding to both sides in any quarrel . . . That means often you work behind the scenes because you don't get up and begin to shout about such things, or there will be no effectiveness...
...leatherneck maker, Sergeant Jim Moore (Webb), chews callow boys and spits marines. He shouts fear into his boots, and they shout courage back at him. His undeviating training code: if I don't almost kill you in this process, an enemy will some day make you "dead, dead, dead!" The fragile axis of the plot, a moral weakling from a Corps-dedicated family, naturally turns eventually into the pride of his platoon. Sergeant Webb surprises in the end. Just when he might be expected, for the good of the Marines, to mow down his whole motley lot of boots...
...Franklin Roosevelt, who, he says, was symbolically offered the kingly crown that Caesar, on the Lupercal, "did thrice refuse." To a Cleveland crowd during the 1940 campaign, Roosevelt said that, when the next four years were over, "there will be another President," upon which the crowd started to shout "No! No!" Thus, says Author de Riencourt, "the first ghostly contours of Caesarism were appearing...
...Maria Caglio to indicate that Piero Piccioni had ever even met Wilma Montesi. He himself swore that he had not. In her testimony Caglio tangled herself up in so many contradictions that the crowd which had cheered her arrival watched her depart in cold silence save for a single shout of "basta" (enough...
...theme. But most criticism ended with the first performance in Ankara. The libretto altered Irving Stone's fictionalized Van Gogh biography, Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts...