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...movie form, the drama is at its best in its treatment of Patrick's penetrating and witty dialogue, most of which occurs in outbursts of temper between Lachie, the hero, and his well-meaning hospital mates. The film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make...
...biting, one expert wrote: "Get some white cotton gloves and make her wear these all the time-even in school. They will not only serve as a reminder, but also make her ashamed when people ask her about them." Obedience was to be required at all times, "and if temper tantrums resulted, they should be ignored...
...celebrated finishing a new book by getting drunk, went to sleep at the curb in his car after deciding "the road seemed to be going uphill all the way." When he was arrested and taken to the station house, "conditioned by my past experiences with policemen, I lost my temper and struck this officer. The police merely held my hands until I had regained my temper. Later the police showed some willingness to forget. I was told I could go home ... I got into my car and drove home. The road had flattened...
Nonetheless, Steere notes "certain incalculable assets which Protestantism's character and temper give it in the inward renewal it longs for: 1) It is free to criticize itself and to seek the truth, wherever that may lead it. 2) It is not inseparably bound in its confrontation of Jesus Christ to the historical formulae of any particular historical period or culture. 3) It is in principle a laymen's movement...
Schumacher had misjudged the German temper: he thought that Germans would reject the terms which Adenauer got from the Allies. But in West Germany last week, there was general approval of Adenauer's agreement. The Germans seemed satisfied with what they got. The lesson had begun to sink in that, after all, it was Germany which had lost...