Word: contend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Takes Gun still has some vociferous opposition to contend with. Says State Senator Vincent M. Vesley of New Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote...
...20th century morality play by Poet Archibald MacLeish, with overtones of both Everyman and Faust, in which God and the Devil contend for the afflicted soul of a modern Job. Despite some flatness in both poetry and drama, and a hollowly humanistic ending, it makes for an arresting evening in the theater and repeats some eternal questions about the meaning of man's suffering. Brilliantly directed by Elia Kazan...
...this point, says May, the U.S. tycoon is likely to crack up with a psychosomatic heart attack. In fact, psychosomaticists contend that practically any part of the body can be a target for the psyche's anxiety and despair...
...save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood-swept houses, trees, telephone poles, cows, chickens, and a mob trying to beat him to death. His head bloodied, utterly bushed, Strong Man Hayden finally dropped Actress Page while lugging her through the flood, dislocating her back. ¶ Broadcasting from Hollywood-for the first...
...much too often, Tracy cannot contend with his own garbled narrative; with Dmitri Tiomkin's musical score, which is alternately martial and ritualistic (and obtrusive enough to ruin the effect of at least two good scenes); and with Arthur Schmidt's film editing, which unfortunately is at its spliciest in the climactic battle between Tracy and the fish...