Word: burtonizing
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...announced, Brownell had a list of six final prospects. Then Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson was dropped from the list because, among other things, he had been a left-of-center Democrat and an ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing plan. Associate Justice Harold Burton, the only Republican on the court but not its senior member, was eliminated because jumping him over the others might have started a new round of bickering among the Justices. Federal Circuit Judges Orie L. Phillips of Colorado and John J. Parker of Virginia were considered too old-both will...
...Attended the swearing-in as his liaison man with Congress of I. Jack Martin, onetime Taft aide. Grinned Ike: "Be prepared for a good long oath, because Justice Burton really gives you the works...
...Robe. The first CinemaScope film, a colorful, breathtakingly big production of Early Christians in Ancient Rome. Based on Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 bestseller, starring Richard Burton, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons (TIME, Sept...
Handed the routine military job of supervising the execution of Christ ("a fanatical troublemaker "), Burton passes the time on Calvary by winning Christ's robe in a dice game. In the earth-shaking storm that follows the Crucifixion, Burton loses his robe, his slave and apparently his sanity. Returned to Italy, he becomes convinced that he was bewitched by the dead Messiah, and accepts an imperial commission to go back to Palestine to investigate the un-Roman activities of the new sect. He finds Mature and the robe at Cana, in Galilee, but exposure to the gentle habits...
Director Henry Koster and Scriptwriter Philip Dunne have made a real effort to avoid the pitfalls of Biblical movies by balancing the saintly preaching of Dean Jagger (as Justus) and Michael Rennie (as Peter) with the muscular Christianity of Burton and Mature. There is a minimum of the sex and sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion...