Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biocontrol-turning men into robots [TIME, Oct. 15]-as expounded by Engineer Curtiss Schafer is the most chilling scientific vision in many a year. For man to be enslaved by electrical processes, his spirit and genius and upward thrust mechanically coerced and molded to the will of a malignant Grand Inquisitor-this is the final madness...
Before 1,000 stunned but still loyal Democrats in the Conrad Hilton Hotel's Grand Ballroom he stood, waving and smiling. Behind him, weary but proud, stood his sons, John Fell and Borden, and his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives. Turning with true style to that strange ordeal expected of a loser in big American political battles, Stevenson thanked his supporters "for the confidence that has sustained me'' during the time "I have been privileged to be your leader...
...about the "bureaucratic errors" of the late Rakosi-Gero regimes in Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...
...admirabe characters for a modern epic because they live on a large scale. Their "ranch," a domain of 596,000 acres, is the setting of some huge social affairs--mostly weddings and funerals--and a number of magnificent fights, all staged by director George Stevens with an eye for grand effects. The aura of grandeur surrounds even the villain of the piece, a rather boorish ranch-hand who finds oil on a little piece of land which the boss' sister leaves him, goes on to cover the rest of the state with oil wells...
...movie's fault, is that the people aren't really big; their motives often appear selfish or spiteful or stupid. The disparity between the characters' grand surroundings and their petty actions is, of course, one of the main points of the film, and it requires that these people be cut down from epic size by constant acid scrutiny. But it doesn't take three hours and any number of lavish sets to advance such a relatively simple argument--Stevens, as a matter of fact, clinches the point in one short scene which shows the group of ill-bred oil millionaires...