Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...films with The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes which the U. S. cinema industry has never been able to touch. Night Train and Blackout (TIME, Nov. 25) show that Hitchcock's departure for Hollywood before World War II failed to deprive the British cinema of its special bent for prolonging a nerve-racking state of suspense over an almost unbearable period of time...
Conductor Mitropoulos is a pious Orthodox Catholic who always wears a crucifix and a medal of the Virgin, almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...
...anyone who is familiar with firearms and their handling may readily discern, the following items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat...
...Hocking's opinion, "a non-intimidable, non-bribable, non-hating United States" may be the sole hope of preventing the mutual near-destruction of the European belligerents, each of which will continue to fight, he added, "so long as it fears that the other, whatever its professions, is secretly bent on reducing it to economic dependency...
Most autobiographies centre on the autobiographer, but Playwright Williams', for reasons that become plain as the play progresses, centres on the character played by Ethel Barrymore. She is a cultivated, middle-aged spinster who moves to a Welsh village toward the end of the 19th Century, bent on educating the local coal miners. Discouraged by tory opposition, she gets the will to go on from the presence of one coal-stained boy who promises great talent...