Word: antagonistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break down the door. Knights of the Round Table adds a degree of sophistication: Robert Taylor discovers that his sword is out at the blacksmith's for repairs and has to fight off the first few rogues with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their way over to the edge of a cliff. Here, oddly, it is Taylor who gets thrown to the floor of the ravine. Miraculously, he lands in a bed of quicksand; and on hearing his affectionate call, his horse trots over, throws...
...squash team also meets its first prep school antagonist when it travels to Exeter today. The Exeter squad boasts three men with four years' squash experience on the team...
...Neill's own version of George F. Babbitt is William A. Brown. He appeared for the first time in The Great God Brown (on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theater in 1926), an outwardly happy businessman ("the visionless demigod of our new materialistic myth-a Success"). His antagonist is an artistic soul both envied and victimized by Brown. The artistic soul cries out: "Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am L. afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh...
Ready is a heavy-jowled man who has been chief of police for over three years. During this time his chief antagonist on the question of adequate police service has been a red-headed newspaperman named Eddie Martin, who covers the City Council for the Boston American...
...staring sun. Ryan, whose spirit normally comes from a bottle, nevertheless finds the will to fight his way back to safety and salvation. The drama is high, but it would have been much heightened had not the uncertain artifices of 3-D photography made the awful antagonist, the desert, look about as realistic and terrifying as a 98? herbarium...