Word: strands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of these acts are taken from the files of the U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Producers Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand have dramatized them in sequences bound together by straight documentary interludes, highlighted them with perhaps the finest spoken commentary (Paul Robeson) ever recorded on celluloid and an effective musical score (Marc Blitzstein) accompanying the Robeson songs. The result, better as episodes than as a whole movie, is a shocking, stinging picture whose realism could never have been achieved in soft-stepping Hollywood...
These savage episodic passages receive the full benefit of Producer Strand's sensitive, pointed camera work, and of the remarkably natural performances of Fred Johnson (farmer), Art Smith (labor spy), Housely Stevens (sharecropper...
...year-old St. Clement Danes Church, which lies like an island surrounded by the traffic of the Strand, only the walls and tower still stand. Of St. Clement's eleven bells, six have been destroyed. A month after the blitzing of St. Clement's last spring, its vicar, the Rev. Mr. William Pennington-Bickford, died-of a broken heart, his parishioners said. Last week his widow was buried beside him. She had jumped to her death from an attic window after telling her cook: "I prayed every night that God might take...
Paladin of Siva from India's coral strand...
...daylight, in the Strand, "people drifted by with a half-dazed, half-sleepy expression on their faces, as if they had forgotten something but couldn't remember what it was. Something uneasy, abnormal in this leisure, like . . . like a watch running down...