Word: colossuses
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...Clay committee argued that both India and Pakistan should continue to be heavy beneficiaries of U.S. aid, if only because of their precarious positions against the "Red Chinese colossus." But what is the sense of helping a mixed-up country like left-leaning Sukarno's Indonesia? Says the Clay report: "We do not see how external assistance can be granted to this nation by free world countries, unless it puts its internal house in order, provides fair treatment to foreign creditors and enterprises, and refrains from international adventures...
...industrious apprentice novelist on the island of Corfu. What made him keep opening the letter and reading it again and again in the rain was the fact that it was from that self-acknowledged genius Henry Miller, 21 years older and not yet world-famous but already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven't simply burst in on your privacy and carried you off to found American literature at home." Compared with Tropic of Cancer, wrote Durrell...
...subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget of $5,000,000-he spared no effort in Sodom and Gomorrah, and in consequence his super-colossus stands as a milestone in the history of cinema. It is the first motion picture that ever tried to tell the story of sodomy to the kiddies...
...first time it has inspired a film, and quite a film it is. Produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean, the men who made The Bridge on the River Kwai the best war picture of the '50s, Lawrence of Arabia is a cinema colossus that takes four hours (including intermission) to see, took 15 months to film, cost more than $10 million, employed 1,500 camels and horses, 5,000 extras, six famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy) and one comparatively obscure young man (Peter OToole) who will soon...
...example, was "crooned" rather than sung, and in general one missed just that quality which Mme. Crespin's recent teacher, Lotte Lehmann, would have brought to the songs, a sense that one was hearing a singing actress rather than a merely vocal phenomenon of the order of the Colossus of Rhodes...