Word: slavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over-all conception of the doors is conservative enough to be appropriate for their setting, but avoids the slavish traditionalism that stultifies most contemporary ecclesiastical art. Manzù's ambition is to create something worthy not only of St. Peter's but also "of the time in which we live." The incisive yet graceful style of the bas-reliefs is distinctly his own. Perhaps no other living sculptor could have put so much sense of space and air into such deliberately low relief. His art, as one Italian critic put it, "is like a veil of poetry breathed...
...accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace. At the camera distance of one generation, 19-year-old Brace is the sister of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley-a victim of the new conformism, revolt for revolt's sake...
...issues, private and public, find reconciliation in the climax as the com pany gives up and the workers win. The dice, without doubt, are loaded. Every boss who crosses the screen is either a sleek deceiver or a leering flunky, and the police are slavish doers of the corporate will. Nevertheless, the film, within the propagandistic limits it sets, is a work of vigorous art. It is crowded with grindingly effective scenes, through which the passion of social anger hisses in a hot wind; and truth and lies are driven before it like sand...
...years ago refused to tell a congressional committee whether he had ever been Communist, Local 301 claims 20,000 out of a total of some 42,-000 General Electric employees represented by the U.E. Ever since the U.E. was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1949 for slavish adherence to the Communist line, Local 301 has been the strongest opponent of James Carey's C.I.O. International Union of Electrical Workers for bargaining rights at G.E. But in Schenectady last week, Local 301 about-faced. It started a movement to join Carey's C.I.O. union. Leader of the move...
...swaggering and posturing, with words dropping from the side of his mouth in chunks and gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson, less slavish to the physical, just points his cigar and says "Nyah," fixing opponents with crepe-swathed stares. Then he sends enormous wreaths to their funerals...