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...Romans celebrated the Saturnalia (Dec. 19-25) by giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps to symbolize light and warmth, and money, gold or silver objects as talismans of wealth...
Visser 't Hooft's stern Dutch face reflects warmth and good fellowship over a drink or at the staff's daily 15-minute tea party, but the ship he runs at Geneva is taut. He is capable of festive foolery: at an office party each St. Nicholaas Eve (Dec. 5), he sings a song consisting of good-natured personal gibes at the staff. He travels plenty. "If I hold any kind of a record," he says, "it is for attending international conferences. I wonder...
These impressions are intensified in the performances. Actress Page, an artist of unusual richness and motility, soon melts any sense of frigidity in the heroine with her glowing warmth and charm. And Actor Harvey, a player with the frigid fascination of a lizard, is clumsily miscast as the hotblooded hero. Instantly the spectator senses that this reptilian type could never possibly pair off with the warmhearted heroine. Instantly the love affair loses its credibility and the picture its suspense. Nevertheless, the film conspicuously possesses Playwright Williams' characteristic virtue: a pathetic-romantic atmosphere that lingers from scene to scene like...
...discovery that he was at heart a masochist. For years Lawrence had indulged himself in private scourgings in the desert to toughen himself. "Pain," wrote Lawrence, "was a solvent, a cathartic, almost a decoration to be fairly worn." Lawrence confessed that under the Turkish whiplashes and bayonets "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me." This realization converted Lawrence into the ruthless sadist who machine-gunned prisoners in cold blood...
Inching Along. Despite the personal warmth of their sessions, there was little thawing in the political attitudes of either, which are not so much antagonistic as totally unlike. They could easily agree on the U.N.'s importance and on support of India's efforts to improve itself economically. They acknowledged that it would be pleasant if Laos could become a truly neutral state, free of "domination by any foreign power." They hoped for a peaceful and united Congo...