Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accustomed to notice the color of a man's skin first and foremost. It is his most striking physical characteristic. That is why a conscious effort is absolutely necessary to prevent the description of this characteristic from creeping in where it does not belong. Hans A. Wolf...
While the husband is away in the army, his wife is chased by a slightly mangy wolf (Stewart Granger) full of bad intentions. Gilliat's sympathy for all the people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows...
...associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
...Wolf compared the present nationalist movement in southeast Asia to similar expressions of nationalism in the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century. What is remarkable about the Asian movement, Wolf said, is that it has all been telescoped into the last 30 years. At the turn of the century nationalist sentiment hadn't even begun to brew there...
...Wolf, at present a student at the School of Public Administration, was formerly vice-consul at Batavia...