Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...
This Above All (20th Century-Fox), adapted from Eric Knight's novel of the same name, asks the bitter, irrelevant question: Why should a young, disillusioned, lower-middle-class Englishman risk his life for the upper classes unless he is sure of a new shake after World War II is won? Like the novel, the picture fails to give a satisfactory answer...
...Pierre Laval is a squatty, villainous-faced old man who made political capital of his own nation's disunity and pushed France into subservient collaboration with its 20th-Century invader...
Moontide (20th Century-Fox) has what many a female cinemaddict would like to have: a rough, tough man, with romantic overtones, to take home and tame. He is seamy, sturdy, slow-burning Jean Gabin, onetime foundry worker, marine and music-hall comic, whose talent for acting natural and talking slang made him France's No. 1 male cinemactor...
...ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were generally adopted...