Agreement

Agreement Builder
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Agreement Builder contains over 100 of the most essential business agreements for your small business. Select the agreement you need and customize it to suit your business needs.

The Four Agreements 2010 Softcover Engagement Calendar
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The Four Agreements 2010 Softcover Engagement Calendar: The bestselling book The Four Agreements introduced a simple but powerful code of conduct for attaining personal freedom and true happiness. The four agreements guide readers toward a life of increased wisdom and self-awareness. With an all-new selection of insightful messages from The Four Agreements, The Voice of Knowledge, and The Mastery of Love, this calendar will help you follow the four agreements as you work to achieve more love and joy in your life.

No Agreement
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This is Fela at less than full strength. The 'perpetrators' of this CD have, and there are many examples of this, mislabelled the material: The first track is actually 'Dog Eat Dog', and the second track is 'No Agreement'. The clowns that put this CD together obviously didn't even bother to listen to what Fela was singing about. I'd look elsewhere frankly.

Gentleman's Agreement
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The conventional wisdom is that "Gentleman's Agreement" was a good film about anti-Semitism but that "Crossfire," which came out the same year (1947), is better, more hard-hitting. But I still prefer "Gentleman's Agreement." It's a more "genteel" film than "Crossfire," but that's the point. It shows how anti-Semitism existed in America, not in the virulent form that it existed in Europe, but in more subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways. The title refers to the unspoken understanding among certain non-Jews that Jews would be excluded -- from certain neighborhoods, jobs, etc.

In a way, the film seems dated simply because we've made a lot of progress since then.

Gregory Peck is the heart of the movie. It's hard to imagine another actor in this role. His performance sort of foreshadows his Atticus Finch of fifteen years later in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Another outstanding performer is John Garfield, who, perhaps because he was Jewish in real life, brought a genuine authenticity to his role.

The romantic aspect was the weakest part of the movie. Like some of the writers on the International Movie Data Base board, I would've preferred if Phil (Peck) would've ended up with Anne (Celeste Holm), not Kathy (Dorothy McGuire). I guess they had to go for a conventional ending.

I found the Dorothy McGuire character insufferable, but I don't know how much of that is the performance and how much is the character. But McGuire does capture a certain "Wasp" sensibility, especially of that time.

It seems to me that the movie gets better as it progresses. The scene towards the end of the movie, the scene in the restaurant with Garfield and McGuire, is among the most interesting, because you see the very different sensibilities of these two people (both the actors and the characters!).

It's also interesting to get glimpses of the New York of sixty years ago.