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Word: caste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of it is beautiful to look at, rather like tapestry turned into slow-motion ballet; but beauty on film, when there is too much of it and too little else, can get pretty dull. Not even the talented, magnificent-looking cast can bring much of the film to life. There is a lot of engaging magic, but that, too, loses its appeal; there is too little sense of real life by which to measure its wonder. The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Nevertheless, this constant attempt to smooth away a rough, wholesome play cannot be completely successful. Where the treatment of "Earnest" was natural and right, in "Man and Superman" it is artificial, and when the power of Shaw's ideas does break through, both the cast and the audience are left both embarrassed and helpless. But after a painful farewell to George Bernard Shaw, one can trot down to the Shubert and be amused...

Author: By N. S. P., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/23/1947 | See Source »

...touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an injury was a mortal blow to the team, There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...touchdown brought his average down, and whose virtual loss from the Yale game with an Injury was a mortal blow to the team. There is Ken O'Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense. Returning also are such capable performers, in the 1946 backfield as Leo Flynn, Paul Lazzaro, Jim Noonan, Paul Shafer, Bill...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Having read your article on Harold Stassen [TIME, Aug. 25], the writer conducted a one-man poll on the 1948 election. The result -one Republican vote if Stassen is nominated-otherwise a vote reluctantly cast for Harry Truman. PAUL SABINE Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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