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...results of most history quizzes indi cate that history in general is dully written, dully taught. Yet historians and teachers, who have plenty of excuse for being complex and controversial, have very little excuse, considering the pulsing nature of their material, for being dull...
...grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
...Perhaps the psychiatrists, now for the first time having a chance on a large scale . . . are having a field day. . . . It is easy to believe that an undisciplined boy with a spoiled-child complex, an aversion to Army life, a dislike for doing what he is told or a fear of personal injury, gets no help from having his tantrums or fears dignified into psychoneuroses and phobias and learning to talk about himself in psychiatric terms. If ten thousand osteopaths were added to the examining staff, there would probably be an amazing increase in the number of draftees whose vertebrae...
...Character." But gargantuan sets were easy by comparison with the problem of converting a famously cold and fiercely arrogant intellectual-in the withering jargon of show business, a "character"-into a cinema hero. The makers of Wilson have gentled, sweetened, warmed, simplified and softlighted Woodrow Wilson's complex personality in every way the facts allowed. Their title-role choice of Canadian-born Alexander Knox, largely for his excellent voice, was well-nigh perfect for the purpose...
...hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...