Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progressive and conservative poles are stronger, and the tension between them is maintained without crackup through the extraordinary political and philosophical character which the revolutionary colonists gave to the U.S. in its painful years of birth. The Founding Fathers knew or sensed that they were embarking on an epic journey. With a passion for history and political principles unequaled in any group of leaders before or since, they ransacked the political possessions of Western civilization beginning with Greece & Rome-and packed their bags with minute purpose. Much was discarded as unsuited for the future. What was retained...
Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
Florence's version turned out to be more of a musical epic than a traditional opera, but the music was Prokofiev's most melodious and the performance first class. The first act, most of it set in the gardens and salons of Moscow's early 19th century aristocracy, took care of "peace." The music of this act was light and tuneful, almost in the style of French or Italian chamber music. The other two acts turned warlike, and their music was richly Russian. At the end of Act II, a powerful chorus of defiance was chanted while...
...Paramount, for the benefit of 80-year-old Adolph Zukor, an antique stereo-camera was hauled up from the basement. Out the window went twelve days of production on Sangaree, a costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again in 3-D, with Technicolor. "Whaddya mean they won't wear glasses?" demanded Producer Bill Thomas. "They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want...
...Another epic story [that] someday must be told," says Marshall, is the vain and valiant struggle put up by units of the X Corps and the First Marine Division manning the eastern sector of the U.S. front...