Word: overlong
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...weeks hence, when the Crimson meets Princeton, it is possible that the local gridiron score will be something less than 65-7. But regardless of the football outcome, Cambridge sports fanciers will still have concrete reason for celebration. The hockey rink, overlong in fund-raising and planning stages, will be completed. There will be, of course, a dedication in a formal ceremony. But more important is the small meeting of H.A.A. officials who will dedicate the rink to specific purposes...
...critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature and even for things themselves, feeling strangely dissatisfied in the very midst of its triumphs. Each needs the other. Both are suffering from this overlong courtship. The world itself needs their fruitful union...
...camera freely from present to past. But in so doing, he sacrifices plot continuity for frightening suspense. He saves the plot with a police-room discussions of former passions but weakens fifteen minutes of the film. Fortunately, after this the action picks up markedly. And except for an overlong comfroom scene, the film is again highly exciting, reaching a splendid crescendo with a chase through the halls of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac...
...praise generously to the cast, headed by Soprano Zinka Milanov, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Leonard Warren and Basso Cesare Siepi. Just to keep franchise, the critics grumbled a little because of some of the cuts that were made (or some that were not made) in shortening Verdi's overlong opera. But they more than made up for that with praise of Painter Eugene Berman's "deeptoned and properly ominous" new sets (TIME...
...young graduate who must choose a life's work. The graduate played by Tom Kennedy must select among Junno and wealth, Venus and artistic fame or Minerva and scholarship. Smith an obstinate fellow will have none of them and the goddesses immediately dispatch him to points unmentionable. Despite an overlong ending, the performance is thoroughly enjoyable...