Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castle (Paramount) is the beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull...
...Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are provoked and therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...fact that Russia used them too. Now Gliksman, who found himself in a Siberian labor camp after Poland was carved up by Hitler and Stalin, tells the story of that experience with a better chance of attention. The book is an unadorned record of human suffering devoid of literary flourish...
...grey-haired Harvard law professor asked his class: "Does anyone have a $5 bill?" When a student waved one aloft, Professor William Lloyd Prosser beckoned him down front, transferred the money with a flourish to his own wallet. Then he folded his hands across his belly and smiled broadly at Second-Year Student William Poindexter. The class snickered. Poindexter blushed...
This direct antithesis between communism and democracy renders prospects for peace "gloomy" but the fact is nonetheless that war no more than appeasement will solve the problem which confronts us. For war would only produce an environment of devastation "in which ideas as virulent as Communism and Fascism flourish...