Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Living in degrading poverty, with no hope for social or economic advancement, it is small wonder that the Mississippi Negro has little pride or ambition. The most ambitious ones go North (lending some justification to the classic Southern cliche, "You never see an unhappy one"), but it is amazing that more do not. Part of the answer, of course, lies in their family ties here...
...Sound of Violins. As the drama was resolved in flames, the first-night audience went up in smoke. From her first speech, Julie Harris had held them, as her Joan was held, in the bright wonder of a visitation. In the power of the English (Christopher Plummer) she sat in the cruel dock, a brave but pathetic young girl; yet as she played her life out on the stage, a beauty of holiness unfolded out of her and beat upon the faces of the crowd like great white wings. They followed the gleam of her sincerity as she led them...
...farmer's daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley. "My!" Lori trills. "Isn't the air grand out here on the desert? And look at those stars -aren't they beautiful?" It is small wonder that Palance goes berserk at the film's end and gets himself shot down by a battalion of police...
...eloquent faces of the two young people placed on the rack by the churchmen of England make one wonder if we are not still living in the Dark Ages...
...paid its respects to the "imported article," as he once tagged himself, by offering him the Harvard philosophy professorship which he held with distinction from 1907 to 1912. But he always sounded as if he wanted his Greek gods to bomb the place. He fumes to William James: "I wonder if you realize the years of suppressed irritation which I have past in the midst of an unintelligible, sanctimonious and often disingenuous Protestantism . . . My Catholic sympathies didn't justify me in speaking out because I felt them to be merely sympathies . . . but the study of Plato and Aristotle...