Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from any inhibitions it might have in attacking the Marshall Plan...
...Informer" belongs to that remarkably rare category of movies that aspire to real tragedy. The specific time and place of the story become only details in the portrayal of a man who has sold the modern equivalent of his Faustian soul, all his ties with society. For the price of two passages to America, he betrays a friend in the Irish Resistance movement, and as he walks through Dublin at night, afraid of everyone, he becomes a Judas, and a truly tragic figure. While the picture takes him through one night of repentance, drinking, boasting, but mainly fear...
...becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...
...sits around . . . eating steak three times a day fried in butter," and the Army which is stalling the war along "until a Ground Forces officer receives the surrender. They'll cheat us [the Air Forces] out of it. Well, by God, we won't leave a sucking soul alive in Germany to surrender! That's what we'll do!" His hand reaches for a desk button and presses it, and Jones...
...villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...