Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such occasional idiocies do not prevent the Communist message from reaching the minds of thousands like a messianic revelation. In the village of Arsoli, a white-haired, sturdy old peasant woman described how the message came to her: "I think perhaps one is born with a Communist spirit, just like some people are born poets. I remember the first Abyssinian war with our terrible defeat, and watching the first swallows come from Africa that year. I remember, too, worrying when I was young about people like the carpenters, who built fine furniture but slept on trestles. Communism will...
Torment (Oxford Films) and A Cage of Nightingales (Lopert), both European films, tell in schoolboy terms of an old, bitter, incurable conflict: the free, self-responsible, self-governing spirit v. authority...
...before the war ended, Edsel died and a spirit died in the old man. He was 80. One day, trotting in his usual fashion from his car to the Administration Building, he tripped and fell face down on the grass. Thereafter he walked. Edsel's son, Henry II, came home from the Navy to run the empire. An attack of acute indigestion almost finished the old man. He puttered around his Georgia plantation and Greenfield Village and the museum...
...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
...most of some beautiful opportunities. Miss Johnson has a subtly balanced melancholic power, and an ability to convey complex emotions simply, which derive from the great days of the stage, and are almost never seen in a film. And the excellent director, David Lean (In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter), has again rendered Mr. Coward as rich a service as Mr. Coward has rendered...