Word: archly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle room, will contain display cases, indirectly lighted, and giving the impression of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...