Word: ax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands of Saxon archers hurling themselves across the moat and swarming...
Dave, a philosophy major, now says he thought ruefully as he fell of the Greek concept of hubris-the Icarus complex that drives men to overweening aspirations. Being a practical physicist, Jim sank his ax handle in the solid snow and held on for dear life...
Ruppel, 48, an ex-Hearstling who came up in the rough & rowdy Chicago press, chopped off so many heads after he got to Collier's that some staffers began to quit even before they spotted the gleam of his ax. Even such contributors as Quentin Reynolds, Collie Small and Frank Ger-vasi made for the door. Editor Ruppel, one ex-Collier's staffer explained, had never before dealt with magazine writers, accustomed to writing pretty much as they pleased, and he often treated them just as if "he hated writers." But in the upper reaches of Crowell-Collier...
...Your cutting "creeping censorship" story [TIME, May 5] fails to point out that reporters, often anxious to stay "on the good side" of some punk politician . . . have perhaps unwittingly and unethically abetted the new trend. Additionally, some publishers whet their pet ax on the "cant' we kill that story" these. Perhaps ours is the oldest profession after...
After All ... In Sunderland, England, a 25-year-old housewife arrested for hitting her husband with an ax, gave her name to police: Patience Brown...