Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declined to mix in the "battle of the bands" talk emanating from B.U. Harvard is out to put on a good show, he said, and if the Terriers can help "that will he just splendid...
...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...
...scare in World War II. Now, fearful that some day she might again have to fight some heavily populated neighbor, Australia was, in effect, buying population and manpower. But she did not want just anybody. Specifically, she did not want Negroes and Orientals. What she wanted most was those "splendid American soldiers." How many? Up to a million...
...Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum (see cut) and View of the Forum...
...restraint throughout that saves the picture from becoming mandlin. Jane Wyman, who has hitherto seemed, to be an actress with partly concealed talents, does a splendid job as the mother, who has prematurely lost all her youth by the death of three children in infancy. Gregory Peck, rather a child's memory of his father than the real thing, does about the best that can be expected in his unsatisfying role. But Claude Jarmans, as the twelve-year-old hero, carries the burden of the film, as well as the acting honors...