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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Capra, Stewart, and Stoic Virtue


We may now think it cheesy or corny, but I often wonder if that's because we think we are somehow better and have moved beyond, or perhaps really just fallen behind, a  real sense of what is right.

From Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, with Jimmy Stewart as Senator Jefferson Smith  (1939):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8aFpnWxPA

From Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey (1946):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0h50v7UNJc

Written in 12/1994


















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