Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hawks obviously likes and understands men, grand enterprise, hardship, courage and magnificent landscape. The greatest satisfaction of this picture is continuous and unobtrusive. It is the constancy with which all outdoors, and all human endurance of it and effort to conquer it, keeps bulging the screen full of honest and beautiful vitality, like a steady wind against a well-trimmed sail...
...title is borrowed from Nietzsche, and that it means great legends of the past may re-occur without their participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped...
...Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building...
...Grand National Steeplechase (Fri. 4 p.m., CBS Television...
...Chicago, the trustbusters launched a federal grand jury investigation to determine if Du Pont had violated antitrust laws in its stock ownership or dealings with General Motors Corp., U.S. Rubber