Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, written by Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, examines the state of Alabama and its Governor, George C. Wallace. For the background of his cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin chose the broken window of Birmingham's bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church as a particularly striking symbol of the depth and bitterness of the struggle...
...Tufts scrimmage Yovicain appeared to have a good start towards two good line units, and he feels he will need at least that many to with-stand the pressure of the Redmen's two platoon club. "They killed Maine with depth," he reports...
...spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life and shown humanity a true and terrifying and yet somehow heartbreakingly beautiful image of itself. They have created a golden age of cinema...
...philosophic level, The Leopard speaks with wonderful depth and sweetness and humanity about life and death, about the ultimate mysterious sympathy of all existences. At the musical level, it moves every moment in a noble and profound andante. But at the deepest level, the picture is a poem, a mood embodied. The mood is the mood of creature sadness, the poem is a love song to all things that live, a swan song for all things that die. In an old man's elegy resounds the angelus of an age, a passing bell for all mortality...
...best, as in Tales of the South Pacific, Michener evokes a sense of place and exotic atmosphere and, as in the opening pages of Hawaii, comes close to poetry. At his worst, he writes prose comic strips that combine the emotional depth of Mary Worth and the flavor of Terry and the Pirates. Caravans belongs to the latter category...