Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intolerance was based on a very abstract view of human experience. A triumph of sentimentalist humanism, it made dramatic sense and power out of all history, which it saw as human circumstance. Its basic notion, that a few universal sentiments motivate human actions, were more common in Griffith's Christian times than now. The films of the period, though, don't reflect it. Even Birth of a Nation, which was changing everyone's ideas of what films could be even while Intolerance was in production, dealt with members of two families in a historical context, tracing individuals' emotions through...
...latest-and perhaps the greatest-Lucia, it was certainly the well-earned triumph of a long and tortuous career. And opera lovers are now speculating with awe just what wonders Sills may perform in future Lucias -singing without a cold...
...development of the canny, determined peasant's son who literally walked to Paris from his native Rumania to become an artist. Currently installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show was initiated by Director Thomas Messer of New York's Guggenheim Museum. Messer's biggest triumph was to get Rumanian museums and collectors to release six works of their country's most celebrated modern artist. Loans from other owners (including Paris' Museum of Modern Art, which inherited the contents of Brancusi's studio on his death in 1957) have brought the total number...
What makes all the difference in this book is Galbraith. The sometime Harvard economist (The Affluent Society), novelist (The Triumph) and dancing partner of Jacqueline Kennedy is that rarity among diarists, a writer of first-rate prose. As a journal of his two years and three months as U.S. Ambassador to India (April 1961-July 1963), the volume is inevitably filled with history's largely forgotten and largely forgettable moments. But scarcely a paragraph is unredeemed by a flash of wit or a quietly neo-Machiavellian observation...
...answers off smoothly. If he were black today, he said, he would be out burning buildings. But he is not black, he pointed out, and so he made a movie as something "positive." After On the Beach and Judgment at Nurenberg, he wanted something with a sense of human triumph...