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...bright young man just down from Cambridge." As opposed to Churchill's inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable -if a bomb exploded under his desk, he would press a button for his third secretary." Blood, toil, tears and sweat are not for him. Recently he advised a British audience to adopt his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed." But Sir Winston has learned to admire Rab's solid virtues; when Butler presented his first budget, Churchill lumbered to his feet, flourishing a handful of papers to urge backbenchers...
...food and money to keep the strikers going. The men do the women's work while the women stand duty-or the work goes undone. In the story of Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) and his wife Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), the moral of the strike is lived out in sweat and painful growing...
...disappointing, however, to sweat one's way with the mountaineers up the ice-cliffs and along the ridges of the upper camp, and then not see the final moment of triumph at the very top. Although Hollywood would never have committee this scene, T. R. Stobart, the expedition's capable cameraman-mountaineer, could scarcely be expected to pack his equipment to the pinnacle and film the others as they arrived...
...prose, beautiful and simple though it is, appear the unmistakable marks of a first novel. The similes are sometimes strained; the spring ground smells like "the healthy, passionate sweat of a country waitress." Occasionally his attempt for poetry-in-prose sounds sing song, "John eat your mush . . . Eat your breakfast and hush...
...died a century ago. According to a large number of the scripts [examinations] which it has been my lot to read, the course of English history since about the year 1760 to the setting-up of the welfare state in 1945 was marked by little but toil and sweat and oppression...