Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who pores over and polishes one draft after another, Churchill, often chisels the splendid phrase as he speaks. In preparation, Churchill dictates ideas directly to a typist (who uses a machine with very large type). These notes frame what he intends to say, but they are no more than a frame. Once on his feet he improvises, digresses, shapes his points as he rolls along...
...University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of the student as training grounds the war, was selected as a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...
...monument of the virtues of the world to all posterity, and a trespass against her greatness would justly be regarded as an outrage against all time. . . . Destroying Rome thou wilt lose not the city of another, but thine own. Preserving her . . . thou wilt enrich thyself with the most splendid possession of the earth...
...Moscow Institute of Cinema Art, and works in the great tradition of Eisenstein. He has produced a literal, well-organized film, which lacks the heroic imagination that might have made Stalingrad a memorial adequate to the subject. More damaging to Stalingrad is John Wexler's commentary whereby the splendid screen images are undermined, overstated, or degraded by the propaganda of hate in which they are draped...
...Limit (RKO-Radio) whips Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie and Robert Benchley together with some other promising ingredients, then collapses into equal parts of mild pleasure and disappointment. Most cinemusicals are so large, loud and splendid that seeing one is like trying to eat a wedding cake singlehanded. The Sky's the Limit is rather short (89 minutes), rather unspectacular (there are no chorus numbers), rather quiet (three suave tunes...