Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Citizen Kane won't please the 'Poonies because it's about the Mr. Hearst who gave them all their beer. Notwithstanding, we must add that it's very good. Orson Welles, you know. At the Brattle...
William Randolph Hearst screamed illegal and slander when he learned that Orson Welles was producing, writing, and starring in a movie which was based upon his life. While Hearst fought to ban the film, Louella A. Parsons and Henry (Time-Life) Luce fought for its appearance. In 1941 Citizen Kane made its heralded debut; a debut which marked the introduction of a brilliant work of art and genius...
Welles, in his first attempt at motion pictures, introduced photographic and dramatic effects which Hollywood, in its years of experience, had never come close to. Fifteen years later, Citizen Kane still stands as a masterpiece of directing, acting, and content. It was no easy feat to capture the life of a man of 76 years in 119 minutes. That the film does have discontinuities and lacks a strong sense of forward movement and plot was inevitable. Yet the film maintains a great sense of the dramatic and is quite gripping...
Emblazoned on the smokestacks of dozens of ships around the world is a huge white N. It does not, as landlubbers might think, stand for Nicaragua or The Netherlands but for Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 46, a short (5 ft. 7 in.), slim citizen of Greece whose private merchant fleet is bigger than the navies of Nicaragua and The Netherlands combined. Niarchos. whose name means "master of ships," claims to be the world's biggest independent shipowner, with some 1.600,000 tons afloat and abuilding (v. Moore-McCormack's 400,000 tons). Though he has launched more ships than...
Increasingly, McCarthy has taken his one-man show out of the Senate and into the back-country. Speaking invitations and Americanism awards from veterans' groups, Knights of Columbus chapters, and other organizations of public-spirited citizens are always forthcoming when the Senator arrives in the neighborhood. Yet even some of the traditional centers of support appear to have cooled slightly in their enthusiasm for McCarthy, or at least in their outrage at his enemies. In past years, a visit to Boston, for example, was certain to induce an outpouring of loyalty among large elements of the population, much as Antaeus...