Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired as he is. and much as his wife wants him to quit and rest, plain Mr. Attlee has a big job looming ahead of him. Gone is the party's evangelical zeal of 1945, when Socialists sang Blake's great hymn, and meant it: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem/In England's green and pleasant land...
...fact is on such a high level that the name of Ralph W. Apley stands among the great names in the Open Alumni Hall. Apley was the first man who turned himself in merely for thinking about shattering a regulation. The student court system, while approving of Apley's zeal, elected not to accept the case on its calendar...
Producer-Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler wisely junks the play's long speeches designed to draw parallels between McLeod's rigid zeal and the evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy...
When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...
...movie has it, Hitler erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...