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THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH |
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Railing against these machines, philosopher C.E.M. Joad said, "The only way to see the country is to walk in it" |
cars (automobiles)
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A person in their 80s (12) |
octagenarian
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It's the occupational surname shared by Plymouth Colony governor John & scientist George Washington |
Carver
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The novel titled this "Patient" is set in Italy & was written by Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje |
(Jason: What is [*] Patient?)
The English
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Not opening with "Good even-ing", this thriller director took the Thalberg in 1968 with "Thank you...very much indeed" |
Hitchcock
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The 60 or so works bearing the name of this "Father of Medicine" likely weren't written by him, nor was his oath |
Hippocrates
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His "Das Kapital" says that a machine " immediately becomes a competitor of the workman" |
(Alex: Yes, less than a minute.)
Marx
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To swing back & forth (9) |
oscillate
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Reasonably enough, this last name of Canadian author Margaret refers to one who lives in or near a forest |
Atwood
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Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity |
Aboriginal
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Music Score winner Dimitri Tiomkin, for this Cooper-Kelly western: "Thank you very much. Thank you"; now give us the time of day! |
High Noon
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After Ptolemy I wished for an easier way to study it, Euclid said, "there is no royal road to" this branch of math |
geometry
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Some cybersecurity experts warn about Russian-developed FaceApp, best known for virtually doing this to people's faces |
aging them
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A musical composition (4) |
opus
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In the names Kirkman & Kirkland, Kirk refers to one of these |
(Tabitha: What is a farm?)
church
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Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language's greatest dramas in what's now the country of Georgia |
(Tabitha: What is Russian?)
Armenian
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"Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.”said Delbert Mann who directed this actor as 1955's "Marty" |
Borgnine
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He said, "The unexamined life is not worth living", so let's examine it--he wed Xanthippe & was an Athenian Hoplite soldier |
Socrates
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This author's 1952 novel "Player Piano" deals with a man rebelling against a machine-filled dystopia |
(Kurt) Vonnegut
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Spanish stew pot (4) |
olla
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In Vietnam, an estimated 40% of the population answer to this last name, the country's most popular |
Nguyen
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This poet told the Nobel Banquet, "Our Irish theatre could (never) have come into existence but for" Henrik Ibsen |
(William Butler) Yeats
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This Viennese-Amer. Best Director for "The Apartment": "Thank you so much, you lovely discerning people. Thank you" |
(Billy) Wilder
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Aeschylus penned the tale of this title Titan, visited by Oceanus & Io... c'mon, you're bound to remember him! |
Prometheus
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In 1816 Lord Byron penned a "Song for" these loom-smashing rioters who were being displaced by new technology |
Luddites
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Horvat & Knezevic are common surnames in this country; Horvat comes from the country's name for itself in its own language |
(Jason: What is... Hungary?)
Croatia
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Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English |
(Joseph) Conrad
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Best actor William Holden, for this "numeric" 1953 film set in a German P.O.W. camp: "Thank you. Thank you" |
Stalag 17
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We can give you at least 300 reasons you should know this king of Sparta who headed the Persians off at the pass in 480 B.C. |
Leonidas
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