Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hats off to professional baseball's czar for removing Brooklyn's "Mote" from the Public...
...came without warning, Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler's first decisive action in two years as baseball's $50,000-a-year czar. Leo The Lip, struck almost silent, let out only two words, "For what...
Ivan the Terrible. Sergei Eisenstein's resplendent, rigid portrait of Russia's first Czar (TIME, April...
First he tried the tomb of Peter the Great. But the Czar whose life had been spent making Russia over in the Western pattern would have none of Joe. "No, no," he said, "I opened Russia's window on Europe and now you've closed it. I don't want you in here." Joe sighed and went on to the tomb of Alexander II. "No room," called the Czar. "I freed the slaves and you enslaved them again. I don't want you with me." There was just one tomb left...
Ivan the Terrible (Artkino) is Part I of a three-part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...