Word: surveyor
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...order to get their point across and make it somewhat palatable, which may or may not be a weakness, the producers have chosen to fall back on the ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers on a dangerous wartime reconnaissance mission by the inclusion of a series of glib, easily-typed characters, each with a varying degree of racial bias. The result is pat and talky, and effect that remains through to the traditionally "happy" ending. It is hard to believe that...
Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...
...young Washington whom Freeman has shaken loose from thousands of documents is first a proud, preoccupied child (here Freeman is weakest, because of the many undocumented blanks in George's boyhood), then a self-made provincial surveyor, land-grabbing and money-seeking; later, a Virginia colonel of militia in the French arid Indian War with "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind...
First the doctors invented a new instrument, which they called a stereo-encephalotome. It is about a foot high, and looks like a surveyor's transit; its four legs are mounted on a ring fixed to the patient's skull by a plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle...
...Surveyor. To prepare for his prodigious literary labors, Churchill got all his papers, letters and documents together and blocked out volume titles, chapter headings and an outline for all five volumes: "First I lay the track; then I put up the railway stations and the signal blocks...