Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Events finally convinced me of what had been a growing suspicion; namely, that whereas my interest was to enlighten the theatre-going public, the film industry's motive was consistently to appeal to the lowest common denominator of human intelligence so as to equally appeal to the greatest possible number of potential box-office patrons. . . . With such cross-purposes, it is little wonder that the industry and I parted ways...
...Allan Roy Dafoe, only man who ever brought five human females into the world at once, affirmed: "America isn't masculine enough. And Canada is following suit in the trend toward femininity. It doesn't make for happiness...
...behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which avoids boring platoon movements and sticks to free, whirling ballet designs...
...bridge. He must get help from the guerrillas who live in Franco's territory. The bridge must be destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins. If the bridge can be destroyed, the offensive may succeed. If the offensive succeeds, the struggle of the human race against fascism may be advanced a step. The courage of the Spanish peasants is linked to the fate of all mankind...
...Whom the Bell Tolls, unlike other novels of the Spanish Civil War, is told not in terms of the heroics and dubious politics of the International Brigades, but as a simple human struggle of the Spanish people...