Word: resistive
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Marlon conceded that "when I came to Hollywood I had a rather precious and coddled attitude about my own integrity. It was stupid of me to resist so directly the prejudice that money is right. But just because the big shots were nice to me I saw no reason to overlook what they did to others and to ignore the fact that they normally behave with the hostility of ants at a picnic. The marvelous thing about Hollywood is that these people are recognized as sort of the norm, while I am the flip. These gnarled and twisted personalities...
...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...
...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...
...Broadway fantasy Ondine, Actress Audrey Hepburn, winner of the best-acting "Tony" award for her role, played the part of a water sprite with fatal charms. Actor Mel Ferrer was cast as a mortal knight who could not resist her despite her sting, finally married her and learned that it was quite a way to die. Broadway kept hearing that Ferrer was not afraid of Audrey offstage either, but when Ondine closed this summer, the couple went their separate ways. Audrey headed for the Swiss resort of Bürgenstock to rest. Ferrer wound up on the Mediterranean island...
...expect the Russians during Phase II to be much more aggressive in their foreign policy, to be considerably more willing to risk a general war. And when the fact of this Russian Phase II atomic power becomes generally known, it may have a damaging effect on the will to resist in some of the nations that are still free...