Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There were seven Eisenhower brothers, sons of David (1863-1942) and Ida (1862-1946) Eisenhower: Arthur (1886-1958); Edgar, now 69; Dwight, 67; Roy (1892-1942); Paul (1894-95); Earl, 60; and Milton...
...Negro ward of Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, a grizzled man sat up in bed, waiting to cry. If only he could weep, he might see again. David Dougherty, 62, had lost his sight almost completely as the aftermath of a rare disease,* which destroys the lacrimal glands producing the watery fluid that lubricates the eyeballs. For two days Dougherty sat in bed with increasing impatience. The doctor had told him he could expect to see again soon after the operation. Still no tears came. Then one noon Dougherty heard a lunch cart rattling down the corridor...
...motet. But it was essentially a tour de force, and Wilder's publishers were surprised at its runaway success. Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 2.000,000 copies, was translated into some two dozen languages and two bad motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper) Susskind, the Bridge was cliffs-above-average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many artificial characters acting intensely about too little. And it completely missed Wilder's subtle mockery of Calvinist theology and his "animal repudiation of my father's notion that...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
...Farewell to Arms (David O. Selznick; 20th Century-Fox) is the second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's famed story of love and war in Italy, when he and the century were young. The first version (1932) starred Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. This time Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones are the lovers-in CinemaScope and De Luxe color-and the whole production is painfully overblown. What Hemingway wrote as an interlude of amorous flutes and distant drums, Producer David 0. Selznick has scored for brass. But what is really wrong with the picture is the Hemingway story...