Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall, the movie does not come off. Wilde's novel was a fiercely arrogant if troubled fable about the conflict between the individualist and society, between ethics and esthetics. The film lacks almost entirely this basic tension; it lacks also the moral courage and anguish, the satiated melancholy and the intellectual intensity which pervaded...
Some 250 British and Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
...screen story of To Have and Have Not is still about a couple of low characters named Harry Morgan and Marie, and Harry is still a rugged individualist who takes rich men out fishing and earns side money in whatever nefarious ways turn up. But Harry's beat is no longer the axis between bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman...
Albert Einstein, gentle genius, staunch individualist, proposed to a Manhattan meeting of intellectuals a worldwide union of brainworkers. Objectives: 1) economic security;* 2) political power. Objected Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon, S.J.: "Dr. Einstein is a symbol of the mental confusion he is trying to remedy...
...rugged Individualist Drumm thumbed his nose at the authorities, went on flying wherever his construction business took him. To him, the red nonoperating tag on his propeller was a meaningless decoration. Haled last week into Nevada's Federal District Court on eleven counts (each carrying a $1,000 penalty) and threatened with permanent grounding, he was fined $2,500. The Court ruled him subject to CAA regulation even though "the flights in question were not commercial in character and ... no commercial air routes were entered...