Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie's individuals are seen microscopically as mere cells of the whole. The problem is to drag, float and worry The Gun (recast from C. S. Forester's novel of that name) halfway across Spain to the walled city of Avila. The year is 1810. The objective: to bring down the wall, storm the breach and recapture Avila from the headquarters garrison...
Around the World in 80 Days. The most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
...narrow dogmas," and the feud with Brigg is on. In the end the minister lies mysteriously dead, the peace of families has been ruined, the chapel is tern down, and a new congregation-with a softer creed has risen-and only then the reader notices that he has seen a picture of the inner life of nonconformist 19th century England...
...which set out at length what Coke put bluntly in brief: "Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign." When Charles, cornered by lack of money, gave sour assent to the petition, there "broke out ringing of bells and bonfires" such as London had not seen for years. But the petition was Coke's last great achievement. When Parliament rose, he retired into the country. He could not know that a century and a half later the patriots of New England would fight Coke's battle over again, resting their case upon Coke precisely...
Readers of Author Bowen's biography may be tempted to compare Justice Coke with her earlier subject, Mr. Justice Holmes. Seen superficially, both were liberals and doughty fighters for freedom against privilege. But they meant very different things by freedom, privilege, and, in the end, by the law itself. To Coke, the law, however flexible, must be based on permanent principles and rest above persons. To Holmes, the law was based less on permanent principles than on current need, an experiment shifting with the times. To Coke, liberty was "such a fellow that he will have no sovereign...