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Another psychoanalytic peep at Lincoln: "Lincoln was a very aggressive person, and hence one would expect him to be also sexually aggressive. According to Herndon, Mr. Lincoln had a strong passion for women. And yet, much to his credit, he lived a pure and virtuous life...
...passion for Peace was aroused when he found cause to suspect that the Spanish-American War was promoted for private profit (see p. 63). His scientific, nature-loving mind was shocked by the realization that "war takes the best men that nations produce. It kills them off and leaves the inferior ones to perpetuate the race." Familiar throughout the land became the tall, fine old figure, black-hatted and garbed in loose-fitting clothes, of Jordan the Peace-Maker, chief director (1910-14) of the World Peace Foundation, onetime (1915) president of the World's Peace Congress, vice president...
...inclusion of Hans Wagner's name on our War Memorial would make that edifice a monument of international understanding. It would be a recognition that there are two sides to international questions, that war judgments are distorted by passion. Many professors here look back with shame to the time when the war fever lay so heavily upon them that they denied the commonest civilities to their former German friends on the campus. A monument to remind us of the changed light in which we saw the German people a decade after the war might help to prevent a repetition...
...story is one of a spiritual struggle, and its portrayal is therefore stripped of both sexual passion and physical desire. One must allow his mind to be cast in the mood in order to get any great feeling of power from the picture. The direction lags at times, but for the most part would have been worthy of Pudowkin himself, than whom there is no greater. Aside from all ballyhoo, this is a super-production...
...other grasp a bottle of Vodka with which to wash away memory of the ugly deed. And the nobility, they carry on scandalously. Understand that this is only an impression gained of Russia which the Vagabond has created from his readings. He is a highly imaginative fellow with a passion for the sordid...