Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soils are made of mineral particles mixed with organic matter and crawling with living organisms, from bacteria to woodchucks. These living things, especially the plants, have more influence on the character of the soil than does the rock or other material out of which the soil was formed. Generally a soil on which a certain kind of vegetation has been growing for a long time develops characteristics which are specially favorable to that sort of plant...
Regardless of what combination starts the opening game, it's likely that the Varsity frontline will have plenty of height. Sophomore Ed Smith, probable forward, stands six-six, center Bill Prior is six-five, and forward John "Rock" Rockwell hits six-four...
Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...
...attempt to fulfill the epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...
Throughout Remembrance Rock there are the sort of things one has come to expect from Sandburg-the jokes and popular songs, the historical information on revival meetings and freight rates, the extemporaneous prayers, some of which are simple and moving. A book composed of them might actually have been what Remembrance Rock attempted...