Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece of cinema craftsmanship, Sunrise, is conventional but careful, a superior commercial product. The settings are authentic-the exteriors were shot at Campobello, Hyde Park and Manhattan, and the interiors are exact reconstructions of the Roosevelt homes. The direction by Vincent J. Donehue, who also did the play, shows a calm good sense of pace and proportion. The acting in the minor roles is competent, and in three of the major ones it is, in one degree or another, magnificent. As Roosevelt's mother, Actress Shoemaker presents an image of horrible and yet somehow humorous fascination: the mother that...
Were the ancient Romans men of austere probity, superior soldiers, masters of government? Is Rome a temple of the classic spirit? Was the Renaissance Italy's finest hour? Humbug, all humbug, says Menen in effect. As he sees it, ancient Rome's writers and pseudo sages produced a kind of corporate image of what the Romans wanted to be like, and subsequent historians have simply perpetuated it. Then as now, he implies, la dolce vita, the sweet life of lavish and cynical corruption, was close to the heart of Roman reality...
...years ago, Taylor noted, the people of the United States seized on Communism as the most important problem threatening the country. with the containment of the Soviet Union as the paramount goal, Americans began to preach a counter- of superior materialism...
...which is shared by all who have the power to push the button, and of a catastrophe which will be shared universally. There is an urgency about the condition of the present world which leaves no room for personal advantage or for the personal or national dignity of staying "superior to the situation;" moreover, there can no longer be any satisfaction in blaming other powerful nations or individuals. Over and above subjective concerns and circumstances, every nation, indeed every human being, is involved to an equal degree in the horrible possibilities which man has imposed upon himself. In addition, every...
...Crimson and a surprisingly skillful Jumbo eleven battled up and down the field for most of the contest, but the varsity's superior condition began to tell in the closing minutes of the second and fourth quarters. Still, as the game neared its end, neither team had been able to score...