Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With at least a half-dozen European film festivals distributing awards each year, even the boast of a "grand prize" is likely to met a jaded response. This accolade, which Miss Julie won at Cannes in 1951, however, rightly draws attention to a film which has received far less notice in this country than it deserves. The distinction of Miss Julie is not its evocation of Strindberg's somber drama, but an artistry in direction and camera-work which makes the film something of a technical masterpiece...
...vast and vital field of federal-state relationships would challenge a dozen "Pat" Manions-but has not been given the full-time attention of even one. Manion has been busy with other things; his proud boast is that he has spoken for the Bricker amendment in all the 48 states. Meanwhile, his commission has languished. Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three. With the commission's report due March i, an extension of time must be requested...
...such passages show the stages of his subject's mind. In the Wanderer, Savage imagines himself a divinely inspired poet. The Bastard glorifies his illegitimate birth. Much in the same vein as Edmund in King Lear, he cries," Blest be the Bastard's birth! He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; no tenth transmitter of a foolish face...
Grindelwald is a storybook village in Switzerland, nestling on the side of towering, 12,000-ft. mountains. It. is Grindelwald's proud boast that it has one of the longest ski lifts in the world; people come from all over the world to enjoy it. Last week a six-woman Russian ski team arrived at Grindelwald for a warmup international meet before next month's world ski championships. They took one astonished look at the capitalistic contrivance and labeled Grindelwald's proud ski lift nothing but "mechanized amusement...
...Hollywood can parade forth its glamor and Paris can boast of its French beauties," Rockwell said, but the most beautiful girls anywhere are these on the Massachusetts campuses...