Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry business to rob the world in this way of its legends. And the Vagabond wonders what is gained when somebody opens an ancient tomb or explores a forbidden sanctuary or wrecks a harmless illusion only to say: "Nothing is there...
...Mary Burns, Fugitive" is in the ancient tradition of gangster films, but gangster films have gone a long, long way since "Scarface". Sylvia Sydney mopes all over the place--which she does very well--and gives us a strongly moving Mary Burns. Allen Baxter is an impressively cold, nerveless killer, albeit slightly too good-looking...
...Dawson-Scott supplied the ghoulish plot in a novel named The Haunting. Scene is a village in Cornwall where Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
...Harvard Yale game, without doubt, ranks with Royal levees, Nazi mass meetings, Soviet Parades, Marathons, and ancient Olympics, as splendid, and important human spectacles...
...currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively to celebrate birth, adolescence, fertility, danced when they needed rain, danced for hunting, planting, warring, danced over their sick, danced over their dead. Dancing was a species of worship as it exhibited itself in ancient Egypt. With the great Greek tragedies dancing entered the theatre, developed until it followed a play's mood as surely as the choral chanting. Dancing in Greece was greatly respected for its fluent beauty, the healthful exercise it offered. But Rome preferred gaudy pageantry, chariot-racing, the bloody games of the Circus Maximus. Linked...