Word: manns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disappointed that Mother Teresa was not on your cover. Her beauty, character and spirit leave glamour and the royals in the shadows. CAROLYN MANN Mechanicsburg...
...heart in The Shop Around the Corner? Or the tortured Capra hero whose trust in American values was tested past all endurance, till he tumbled close to madness? Or the pixilated Elwood P. Dowd of Harvey, his best friend an invisible rabbit? Or the vengeful loner of the Anthony Mann westerns of the '50s--taut epics like Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little...
...there were other sides to the Stewart performances. He is most often thought of as the sentimental avatar of "Capracorn," though he made only three pictures with Frank Capra. He made only four films with Hitchcock. But he made eight with Anthony Mann, more than with any other director, and five of those were westerns with a cynical edge that anticipated the "dark" westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. These appeared in the 1950s, when American innocence was challenged and betrayed by a worldwide conspiracy, by a treason of the knowing and elite, when even Stewart had to show...
...Mann channeled these earlier minor eruptions into great cleansing explosions. In The Naked Spur, Stewart is a bounty hunter who is shot, rolled down a rocky cliff, betrayed by partners, tortured by fever into screaming delirium. He uses the spur of the title to dig handholds up a sheer cliff, then embeds it in the face of his prisoner (Robert Ryan). Some fans of Stewart the gentle child-man do not like to see him become a snarling avenger. But that is what happens when the sense of one's own virtue is affronted. American innocence fairly begs...
...succeeded in really touching people with his life," Mann said. "If we can do things the same way, then we can say that we have achieved the same success that he has."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerCHARLES B. GRANDY '97 and DANIEL J. GOOR '97 deliver the Ivy Oration at the Class Day ceremonies yesterday afternoon. Their satire of the Harvard student experience centered around a ficticious course entitled Foreign Cultures C-97: "Life After Harvard...