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...some "deeds" as he calls them. He suggests Russia share in writing an Austrian peace treaty or acquiesce to a democratic unification of Germany. In fact, he asks as a preliminary to a conference some of the very actions the conference is supposed to discuss. This is a rather stubborn attitude, which disregards the fact that Russia, through its satellites, has made some significant concessions already, such as the acceptance of a Nehru inspired POW exchange...
...stubborn, dedicated World War II leader of the Free French reminded the Left that, by turning against him after cooperating energetically in the establishment of the Fourth Republic, it had caused him to retire, and had then fallen "victim of the confusion of powers it had itself created." He reminded the Right that by coming back into public life in 1947 with his Rally of the French People, he had diminished the danger of Communism, internally and externally, but that the Right, "reassured, hostile to my desire for social action, influenced moreover by the feudal lords of money and press...
...would be a return to dictatorship. Arbenz' strategy apparently is to try to sit on the lid and turn over his office four years hence to a hand-picked army successor who will carry on with his policies, Communists and all. Few Guatemalans have much hope that the stubborn President will ever see the Reds in their true color and break with them of his own accord; As he has said of himself: "Once I have taken a decision, I will not retreat a millimeter...
...laws and city ordinances enforces it. But Southerners seem to know in their hearts that it is not really defensible, and that the tide of events is against it. The result is a war in the South's own soul which many Northerners, who see the South only as stubborn and narrow-minded, fail to understand. A Southern Negro and former slave understood it. Said Booker T. Washington, the greatest Negro leader in U.S. history: "The outside world does not know . . . the struggle that is constantly going on in the hearts of both the Southern white people and their former...
...stubborn seeker after realism Stevens relies heavily on a "reflective technique," i.e., an actor's reaction to a line or situation. At times he resorts to trickery to get the proper reaction. On Shane one old standby worked perfectly with Villain Jack Palance, who seemed unable to turn on the right expression of amused contempt in one scene. Actor Elisha Cook Jr. had an angry line: "You're a no-good, lying Yankee!" Palance's facial expression earned too much contempt and not enough amusement. Finally, Stevens took Cook aside for a whispered moment. When the camera...