Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though rowing styles have changed little in his 36 years as coach, oarsmen have. Today they are bigger and row faster. "It's harder to get into school now; yet the enrollment is larger, so our selection is better in all ways," he explained. "The boys are generally taller and stronger, too. The 6-ft. 4-in. and 6-ft. 5-in. guys in the middle of the shell are common now. In fact, it's getting harder all the time to find little coxswains...
Abruptly, at this point, the character of the film changes. The first 60 minutes add up to a clever psychological thriller, marked and sometimes marred by solemn efforts to see the crime in its social and spiritual setting-as a single pustule in a larger leprosy. The trial, arguing from this evidence, swiftly develops an eloquent though somewhat overextended plea for the abolition of the death penalty. The film rises to a memorable peroration in the words of Clarence Darrow (Orson Welles), as he asks the court to temper justice with mercy, sentence his clients to life in prison. "Life...
...York City--the nation's largest muncipality--spends more money each year than any government in the United States but the federal government and the State of California. The City's annual budget is larger than that of New York State, yet the State exercises an effective legal control over metropolitan finances; it must approve the means by which the City raises its revenue...
...western legend. Good and Evil, it seems, are beginning to understand each other, to be reconciled to each other's existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...
Whatever truth there may be in such explanations, the fantasies of the television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter...