Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the rest of my generation I fell under the sway of that "splendid isolationism" that bred a distrust of capitalistic wars and patriotic oratory. Fortunately, I have had my eyes opened...
...plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West spirit all rolled into one. If Hollywood can keep turning American history into such thrillers, it had better...
...great battle is now proceeding," he began. "Our men at sea, on land and in the air are fighting with splendid devotion and spirit. The Government is convinced that now is the time that we must mobilize to the full the whole resources of this country. . . . It is necessary that the Government be given complete control over persons and property-not only over some persons, but over all persons, rich or poor, employer or worker, man or woman...
...simple U. S. speech in which emotion supercharges the common forms. He wrote it out of the poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...
...reason for this subscription is of course your splendid editorial calling down President Conant of Harvard, President Seymour of Yale and Bishop Manning of New York. Ye gods, how right you are!! Kenneth Roberts hit the nail on the head when he praised your editorial, whereas Professor McLaughlin's criticism gave me a pain in the neck. Your answer to him was perfect...