Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROMEO AND JULIET. Director Franco Zeffirelli brings a poignant immediacy to one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays. As the star-crossed lovers, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting perform with a passion to match their young years...
...Orwell had small status among political men. He stood apart from what he called "the smelly little orthodoxies contending for our souls." He had enjoyed the painful honor of being wounded by fascists and hunted for his life by the gunmen of the GPU. He had fought against Franco in Spain, but with the wrong mob-the semi-anarchist POUM instead of the Stalinist-sponsored International Brigade. Back in London, he had found himself nudged into near oblivion by the fellow-traveling leftist press. Such experiences toughened his mind and help to explain his standing with today's young...
ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli turns one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays into a movie of stunning immediacy. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as the passionate, star-crossed lovers, perform with a maturity beyond their years...
...FORTUNE'S liberals. Wrote a thoroughly angered MacLeish in a memo: "I feel that TIME has never presented the war in Spain for what it was-an inexcusable and unjustifiable act of aggression by reactionary forces against a popular government." Retorted a disdainful Goldsborough: "On the side of Franco are men of property, men of God and men of the sword. In so describing them, I presume that I condemn them to particularly nether depths, but what position do you suppose these sort of men (irrespective of nationality) occupy in the minds of 700,000 readers of TIME...
Romeo and Juliet--The Shakespeare play, dressed up for the color screen by Franco Zefirelli, with teenage stars. At the ABBEY, 600 Commonwealth...