Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they converge in the fatal conclusion. Brando, his hair bleached for the occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything...
...when the English occupiers killed her father, brother and betrothed. She sought refuge as a Roman Catholic Sister of Charity, was soon assigned to nurse the Englishmen who had destroyed her world. In a Dublin hospital she found another man whom she could have loved: a vehemently cynical British soldier, so badly wounded that death seemed sure to overtake him in his bitter atheism-and-her hope of finding her salvation by effecting...
...last week Italian Premier Adone Zoli went up to Florence on a ceremonial visit, and the city's church bells tolled all day. Three years abuilding, the Ponte Santa Trinita was formally inaugurated. The head of the statue of Spring was missing (some Florentines claim an Allied soldier took it), but Florentines contentedly examined the swirl of water under the arches and pronounced it just the same. To those who objected that "after all, the bridge is only a full-scale model of the original," Gizdulich replied: "Even though orchestras are not the same as they were then...
...affidavit by "Victim" No. 3 admitted that she had not protested to the manager of a motel where she had spent a night with the soldier...
Kraft Television Theater: Borrowing freely from Balzac's tale of the strange friendship between a lone soldier and a panther in the desert, Playwright Simon Wincelberg almost captured the novelist's eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie...