Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin's Inn they have inserted a drinking scene that instantly captures the character and spirit of the whaling men. Where Melville needed whole chapters to describe the processing of the whale's flesh--chapters which in most abridgments and adaptations are the first to go--Huston's camera in one shot imparts the atmosphere of the blubber works perfectly. In cases such as these...
...same uniform-bah! The same promotion list-phooey! Would our intrepid young flyers ever consent to this? Would you demolish the Halls of Montezuma? Would you assassinate Benny Havens? Would you desecrate the Navy Blue and Gold? The effectiveness of any armed force lies chiefly in the morale and spirit of its components and not in a cold, efficient, economic steamroller...
...U.S.A.'s creators proudest came in a recent letter from Communist Prague: "You are doing a really good job, not only that you do our evenings more pleasant and unforgetable, but there is much deeper meaning of it-to become acquainted of the development of the art and spirit of American nation with all its optimistic roots of thinking...
...soften Wayne's vindictiveness as he does hunting Indians. Though the film runs for two hours, it nevertheless races through its individual scenes at so breakneck a pace that moviegoers may be uncertain just what is going on. Director Ford indulges his Homeric appetite for violence of spirit and action. Coming on the corpse of a hated Comanche, Wayne shoots out the dead man's eyes on the debatable theological principle that the Indian's blinded ghost cannot find its way to the Happy Hunting Grounds...
...Latin prayers of a Jesuit like Alfred Delp, who called his prison a "kindergarten of death." Delp's greatest gratitude was that once he was able to slip out of his fetters so that he could say Mass with his hands completely free. The book ranges in spirit from the last message of the member of a Communist resistance group who said: "Mankind, I have loved you. Be vigilant," to the gentle prayers of a seaman, Kim Malthe-Bruun, who, the day after he had been tortured, wrote, "Suddenly I realized how incredibly strong I am. When the soul...