Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Magic Town eventually gets gainfully out of order is in sounding its Note of Hope. Know-how, self-respect and daring are traditional American virtues, but this movie suggests that they can be aroused only by deceit and the pressure of public opinion.
Many people found it hard to believe that the decision lay with this small, insignificant and, in some respects, inadequate man. Would not the giants of his party, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what...
"If one may judge by the various commencement utterances ... Americans have only one religion: devotion to democracy. They extol its virtues, are apprehensive about the perils to which it is exposed, pour maledictions upon its foes, rededicate themselves periodically to its purposes and claim unconditioned validity for its ideals.
Columbia University's choice of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as its new president, to take office next year, had brought mostly cheers- but there were a few who had reservations. Said the New York Herald Tribune last week: "There will inevitably be regrets that the trustees were unable to...
In spite of what one associate calls his "appalling virtues," almost everyone likes him. He has some manly vices. He chainsmokes cigarets and munches his way through a good 100 pounds of expensive chocolates a year. He even gambles (for small stakes) at bridge and golf. He plays golf in...