Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently I made a bet with a friend of mine that TIME had made the greatest advertising progress of any magazine in the U. S. during the past year...
...composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest comrades; it's only when he has particular cause, and can think somewhat coolly, that he grows patriotic. The greatest moments are his alone. So the broad, dispassioned, epic away is missing. The tragedy of a nation is not here, nor does it need to be. The personal narrative succeeds without...
...people of the world. Directors seem to want not only to please the public, but to educate them to the cheap things. We have reached a fine state of affairs indeed, when a bunch of ignorant movie directors try to improve upon the works of the world's greatest writers and as a result drag their masterpieces down to the level of cheap comedy. Look what they did when they put my father's famous books. "Anna Karenina" and "The Cossacks", on the screen! My part in the production of these pictures was to fight for as little mutilation...
...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
...HOWARD, Chairman of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers: "The death of Briton Hadden robs American journalism of one of its greatest promises. His youthful viewpoint struck a new note and a wholesome one. His co-workers will carry on the success he helped achieve, but the task will be heavier despite their determination to make good his absence from their ranks...