Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruth Caplan, the ingenue, and Joseph Morlan, the sidekick, started with the disadvantage of the two weakest parts in the script. Neither of them managed to conquer this initial problem. Morlan's ill-timed hamming told against him when compared to Martin, and Miss Caplan, who looked remarkably like Romney's Lady Hamilton in one scene, was generally ineffective...
Poor Bardot. She has seldom looked more beautiful, and between zips she delivers intimations of creditable talent. But Director Vadim displays a flair for the banal that few actresses could conquer, particularly in his final scene: windblown and fully clothed, Bardot stands rigid amid the sun-drenched ruins of a Tuscan cathedral, while Hossein makes one of those long, long walks to fling himself at her feet...
With these triumphs, the Rothschilds earned wide acclaim for shrewdness, reliability and profitability, quickly became lenders to the great. Jakob's loans helped France conquer Algeria. From Vienna, Brother Salomon raised millions for the Habsburgs, who-after some hard prompting at a highly anti-Semitic court-in 1822 rewarded the Rothschilds and all their descendants with the title of baron and their noble coat of arms. From Naples, Brother Kalmann floated huge loans for the Papal States and the King of Naples by placing them with the other Rothschilds...
...extremism. And there is the extraordinary availability of lethal weapons. So the paranoiac, instead of throwing himself off Waterloo Bridge, looks down his telescopic sights." Even Texas found its defenders, in a rough and ready way. Said London University's History Professor Harry Allen: "You don't conquer a great land, you don't drive off Indians, you don't exploit natural resources, without having a tough streak...
...Superhuman fortitude will be required," said Alsop, "or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served his brother." The New York Times's James Reston urged the late President's corps of White House advisers to conquer their grief, which had led some of them "to confuse love with duty, and Kennedy with the country." Said Reston: "Johnson needs the men of thought, particularly now when political issues have to be defined with skill and care...