Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetess-laureate, Pulitzer Prizewinning Marianne Moore, 68, was moved to dash off a Hometown Piece, celebrating the Dodger baseball team and urging it to repeat its last year's glory in the World Series (see SPORT). Though a pot of doggerel in comparison to Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...
...underlying the agreement, there is a departure from the normal. There is a statement signed by noted educational institutions, representing some of the finest minds in the country, and secondly, there is an affirmation that athletes will not be made privileged students on the campus. Thus the Ivy Group states: "The members of the Group reaffirm their prohibition of athletic scholarships. Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...
...purely technical excellence carried an ethical value of its own, then War and Peace would rank among the finest pictures ever made, because technically it is superb. Photographed in Vista-Vision on a film that for once neither glares nor blurrs the colors together, the movie displays a seemingly endless array of attractive palaces and costumes. Furthermore, Vidor's staging of the Battle of Borodino, especially a sequence showing the French troops storming a Russian artillery position, includes perhaps the best battle scenes ever filmed...