Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Culture Growth," a study of civilizations after the manner of Spengler and Toynbee, which has been widely acclaimed since its publication two years ago. He was recently awarded the Viking Medal for the most distinguished contributions to the study of anthropology during the last decade, and has also done extensive work in archaeology and linguistics...
Most of the works exhibited are not representative of sculpture being done today, according to members of the seminar, but many of the artists' have greatly influenced today's efforts...
...first conceived it seemed the epitome of box office appeal-a Western to end all Westerns, with plentiful portions of Sex to attract most of the less bloodthirsty patrons. Tossed into this menage were a threesome of Hollywood's more expensive thespians-Jennifer Jones as a half-breed done up in some brownish makeup and a number of rather low-necked costumes; Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as a couple of millionaire ranchowner's sons, one all good, the other all bad. A flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help add to the expense account...
...Orleans is to be the port of their dreams, something must be done about the treacherous, 110-mile channel from the port to the Gulf. New Orleans would like Congress to appropriate $82 million to build a 62½-mile tidewater ship canal from New Orleans straight east to the Gulf. Such a canal would be free from silt and cheap to maintain. If "U.S. engineers approve, it will be up to Congress...
...action sequences in "Carmen" are well done and the continuity--usually hampered when a foreign picture is cut for export--is good. Minor sketches of a fortune-telling gypsy and a one-eyed bandit are among the picture's high-spots, but the high-spots are few. The bitter revenge that motivated Merimee's unhappy soldier, and his fatal attachment for Carmen, are hinted at here but never realistically portrayed, and thus to main thread of the plot is expressed more by subtle implication than by forceful story-telling. But judging from the advertisements, subtle implications are what the public...