Word: classics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citizen Kane" was Orson Welles' baby. He was the first person ever commissioned by a studio to write, direct, produce and star in a single film, and the result of his multiple activity became a movie classic...
Joan of Arc. A spectacular retelling of the classic story, with Ingrid Bergman (TIME...
When the wind blows, tournament golfers say, the men are separated from the boys. By that yardstick, Samuel Jackson Snead was a man. His booming drives and classic swing always drew a large and enthusiastic gallery. Where Sam usually died was on the greens. But in the Masters Tournament at Augusta last week, even Sam Snead was blown askew by winds. He took a one-over-par 73 the first day, a 75 the second...
Shoulder the Sky. In six weeks, in an assigned paper, Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types of Ambiguity, which became a classic of modern literary criticism. His tutor, Semanticist I. A. Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
...show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film. Maxwell Anderson's current creation...