Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important effort to put into a picture the unbreakable deadlock so long maintained by the Austrian and Italian armies in the Dolomite Alps. The picture is that of a very different war from the one of the Western Front, a war white and unreal in which avalanches, blizzards and mountain peaks are tactical considerations. Unreal, but its very unreality, magnificently photographed, is part of its power...
Mount Collalto, key position of the battle front, is held by Austrian troops. The Italians capture the Austrian town at the base of the mountain, but their many attacks upon and bombardments of the peak are futile. Without its capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native...
...might have been great had its characterization been more carefully attended to, but it has quite enough to recommend it. Tala Birell, a Viennese who played with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, is competent in her role as Florian's wife. Good shot: a night barrage upon the snow-covered mountain...
...right smart unhandy to be po'," and live in a mountain cabin on $575 a year, with a woman and six children to keep-and maybe be neighborly and take in a half-dozen extra ones when their parents die. In the three-room cabin there is no heat but from the fireplace, no window, no plumbing. The hill woman is much in childbirth. After six or eight children she may die. The mountaineer takes a second woman, perhaps a third. What becomes of the many young ones, whose blood is of the purest...
Primarily for mountain folk exists Berea College at Berea, Ky. Only 7% of its 1,600 students are admitted from regions outside the Southern Appalachians. Half the students work their way through the Foundation-Junior High School, Academy and College, earn about 76% of their total expenses. No one is too poor to enter. A 16-year-old is not too young; a 63-year-old not too aged. Students are supposed to have $17 for room & board for the first term, but one girl was admitted with 63?. Tuition costs nothing. Berea's deficits are made...