Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though failing in its overall effect, Cobweb has in its favor some sharply etched scenes, e.g., the dramatic clash of wills between Patient Kerr and Dr. Widmark during an analytic session. Veteran Lillian Gish, as a wig-wearing termagant determined to be on the winning side in any quarrel, gives the most stylish performance in the film...
...Munitions of Peace." "We shall work with all others-especially through this great organization, the United Nations -so that peaceful and reasonable negotiations may replace the clash of the battlefield. In this way we can in time make unnecessary the vast armaments that-even when maintained only for security-terrify the world with their devastating potentiality and tax unbearably the creative energies...
...Clash With Necessary Theory...
...theatrical sense, following history has its clear rewards even if it proves, in the final sense, a mixed blessing. In the fierce clash between Bryan and Darrow history supplies a more rousing scene than most dramatists could invent, and in Bryan's subsequent collapse a twist that few dramatists would dare to. And with the help of Peter Larkin's highly ingenious set, the play creates a graphic town picture of where once the embattled fundamentalist stood and started a ruckus heard 'round the world...
...courtroom clash is first-rate theater...