Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring to your attention one point in which the democracies have failed in their battle against the communistic ideology ? They have overlooked their greatest ally, the spirit of Christianity in the Russian people themselves...
...close scrutiny of Russian literature reveals an innate comprehension of the Christian faith, a strong religious tendency and an earnest seeking after the solution of the human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
...Cinemactor Tom Mix, who never appeared on the program named after him, died in 1940. Ralston continued the program so that the spirit of Tom Mix "could ride on forever in the hearts of both young...
...employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas-rush spirit by directing customers to rival stores, whenever Macy's merchandise is not exactly what they want...
...Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...