Another group whom he attacked in his sermon were those semipatriotic officials who had served Prussia during the War of Liberation without any real sense of purpose.

No doubt your head aches, trying to make something of my description.

Men of genius anticipate their contemporaries, and know they are such, long before the tardy consent of the public.

Practically everybody who worked for the director, including his closest friends, spent time “in the barrel.” “We'd all get our turn,” Andy Devine said. Actors tolerated Ford's abuse because they loved him, understood him, or knew he could draw a better performance from them than could any other director in Hollywood.