Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard kept up the talk on the field although it had not in some earlier games and thus prevented any unnecessary tackling. The passing game improved and the Crimson kept control of the ball as it had done against B.U. two weeks...
...Ithaca, when the Crimson stalled on occasions when it had to run consistently and control the ball, it proved that a tough defense is now, more than ever, and absolute necessity if Harvard is to have a successful season...
...scale of Intolerance is only slightly less astounding than the amount of control Griffith had over it. Its Babylonian main hall, over a mile deep, was fashioned to the smallest detail by carpenters whom Griffith instructed day to day. There was no more a script or a scenarist than there were blueprints or a set-designer: Griffith shot from his head...
...follow except his instincts. They led him to direct engagement with his material. He buried himself on the one hand in his subjects' history, on the other in the dramatic means he'd developed in eight years and four hundred films. His means did not give him formal dramatic control of his project; Intolerance's moral conclusions were not designed into the film from its beginning. Griffith rather intended his range of historical settings to reveal the struggles of "hate and intolerance against love and charity," with a generality and power the single-story film could not achieve...
This strange unity constitutes the formal order of Intolerance . It shows Griffith's desire to tell the truth of his subject directly, without the mediation of a dramatic plan. Though the compositions and cutting of Intolerance show an unbelievably flexible awareness of form, no overall formal control shapes the film. One experiences it rather as a flow of situations and emotions augmented by Griffith's pointed social comments and clear allocation of guilt...