Word: archly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merit, but determined by their supposed attractiveness to this or that section of the American electorate . . . My of contrast Communism between and the the "Christian heresy "anti-Christian paganism" of Naziism, which excites some TIME-readers to such unchristian frenzies of abuse, was a quote from the late, great Arch bishop of Canterbury, William Temple, whose works I advise them, for their own good, to study...
Whether flexing its muscles or breathing sighs, Fan Fan is hilarious entertainment. Swiftly paced, with the indifference to order and logic of an Olsen and Johnson epic, this picture makes farce and slapstick seem like high comedy and arch satire. And most of the credit goes to the two stars...
...silk flags of Communist China and North Korea snapped briskly last week from the triumphal arch at Panmunjom, close by the moldering straw hut where the U.N. worked out the truce. There were no U.N. flags on display, for Panmunjom, "neutral" center of Korea, lies in Communist territory. To frustrated and bitter Americans, this Communist dominance of the scene-legal as it is-reflected a growing reality last week...
...Raine makes him a retarded Colonel Blimp, rather mildly interested in Holmes' adventures. Similarly, Thomas Gomez is badly miscast as Professor Moriarity. Though unctuously sinister, Gomez looks more like an indigent music teacher than a Napoleon of crime. His great girth and flowing hair hardly suit the "lean, ascetic" arch-criminal of Doyle's imagination...
...stalled machine. A third slammed into him, and both cars hurtled off the track. The crowd raised a long, audible sigh when the two cars came to a stop and both drivers scrambled from the wreckage unhurt. The rest of the field swept on, and Ascari's arch rival Juan Fangio won in a Maserati...