Word: obsessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churchill did not take part in Yalta's Far Eastern discussions. His memoirs for late 1944 show his curt dismissal of the importance of China. "This American obsession," he wrote. "That China is one of the world's four great powers is an absolute farce." At Yalta Churchill...
¶ Best actress: Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones); Judy Garland (A Star Is Born); Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina); Grace Kelly (The Country Girl); Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession).
Image by image, in short, Castellani's Romeo and Juliet is a fine film poem. Unfortunately, it is not Shakespeare's poem. In his obsession with the beautiful single frame, Castellani has ignored not only the rhythm of Shakespeare's scenes but has even failed to set...
Why, then, does the nation seem so divided? Partly, says Griswold, because of a "neurotic obsession" that has been fanned and exploited by opportunistic politicians. "The treatment of the obsession, it seems to me, is obvious. It is to meet the real part of it, the Communist conspiracy, with realistic...
Almost from the beginning, critics have talked about Hemingway's obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems...