Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lavish ($6,500,000) production of MGM's supercolossal Quo Vadis, which was filmed with the help of 30,000 extras along the banks of the Tiber, amused some Italian onlookers almost as much as it impressed others. Last week in Rome, the Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali finished a good-humored satire called O.K. Nerone (rhymes with Peron-eh), a slapstick take-off on Quo Vadis in particular and extravagant U.S. movie spectacles in general...
...Nerone is scheduled for release next fall-just after the opening of Quo Vadis, so that Italian audiences can have their cake...
...Constantine's Rome. Made in Italy three years ago with French and Italian actors romping toga-clad through elaborate sets populated by 7,000 extras, the movie has been dubbed into English and shrewdly released to steal the thunder of such forthcoming spectacles as MGM's Quo Vadis and 20th Century-Fox's David and Bathsheba...
...frank admission that the Administration had once hoped, but could no longer hope to tidy up that torn country by military action. To get a cease-fire agreement from the Communists, the Administration was resigned to the minimum goal-the restoration of the status quo ante. The problem of a divided Korea, Communist in the north, free in the south, would remain-a smoldering time-bomb under the shaky structure of world peace...
These effects were considered mild, however, compared to the widening tendency in the rest of the country "toward passive acceptance of the status quo, conformity, and a narrowing of the area of tolerance in which students, faculty and administrators feel free to speak, act, and think independently...