Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironic to note that Van Gogh, who is the spiritual founder of expressionism, appears strongest in retrospect, not for the emotion which once seemed so audacious but for the poetic discipline which controlled that emotion. Nothing highlights the situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated...
...also true that the makers of this movie are concerned, in a spirit not completely commercial, with authenticity. The whole picture-except perhaps for the Hollywood ending-carries a strong conviction to the moviegoer that what he is seeing is really happening; and the conviction is strongest when the camera is watching Jean Gabin, who is just right as un gros legume-a big vegetable...
...shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...early practice game, against highly-touted Providence College, the Crimson looked weak where Wilson expected it to be strongest--in rebounding...
Although the recent ailment of the President should prove disastrous to neither the nation nor the President, it has severely complicated an already difficult and dangerous situation. At the present time, and for the past few years, there has been an exasperatingly obvious need for Presidential leadership of the strongest and most active type. This nation's foreign relations, military preparedness, economic development, educational levels, and scientific activities need the firm leadership which can be provided only from the highest governmental levels. The President's latest attack will probably make it still more difficult for him to devote even...