Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for the narrator. By the swiftness of her flashing toes, as she and Romeo first face each other, she establishes a mood of girlish ecstasy; by the neat way she lifts one calf across the other while Romeo holds her aloft, she expresses womanly satisfaction in her conquest; at the marriage, the very line of her pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance is her fluttering despair when faced with a second suitor, and then her precipitous...
...dancing girl from Samarkand. After a night in Samarkand, John taunts her, "All other wimmin are like the secon' pressing uh the grape." Going at it that way, the terror of two continents takes almost two full hours to win one girl, so the script just skips the conquest of Asia. It apparently wasn't very important, anyway. This picture reveals that what really mattered to Genghis Khan was love. "She," he sighs wistfully, "is my destiny...
...civil disobedience "Satyagraha," or Soul Force. The word comes from satya, meaning truth, and agraha, meaning firmness. The former implies love, Gandhi wrote, and the latter, force; in other words, Satyagraha is "the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence." "Satyagraha," Gandhi explained, "postulates the conquest of the adversary by suffering in one's own person," and it demands that every civil resister disobey a law that is counter to his own conscience and cheerfully to demand the punishment for breaking the law. This weapon, which was to shake the British Empire, relied...
...many times as you've verbally ripped motion pictures and their stars apart, you certainly made up for it in "The Conquest of Smiling Jim." The story was of great interest to me, but I find it hard to believe that Bill Holden is really that perfect...
Donald H. Menzel, director of the College Observatory, and Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, debate whether or not the conquest of space is fact or fiction. Free for all at Jordan Hall tomorrow...