Word: journeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with other towns; but it had a notable history, even before his prophecy that from it would come 'The Shepherd of Israel' . . . The wise men of Matthew's account may have been reluctant to leave the capital city, Jerusalem, at the direction of the scribes, and journey eight miles further to this modest village. But though they left Herod and his palace behind them, they went on and found indeed the genuine Prince of the House of David...
...village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled shrine...
...wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with...
...Donald B. Watt, Jr., '47 is also a member of the experiment and last year led a group into Czechoslovakia. The students spent three weeks in a Youth Brigade, made hiking trips into Southern Bohemia, and wound up the trip spending 10 days at Charles University in Prague. This journey will be repeated in 1950 if political conditions permit...
This sort of journey-through-society script might have led to a movie that really moved with the erratic spontaneity of street life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment, character coloring and social comment.Even the minor movements of the actors-the boy's tumble on a rainy street, the mother's fingering of her cheek-appear overrehearsed...