Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whittier's ambitions for the governorship have been publicized since 1950, when Dever won his second term. An excellent orator and clever platform speaker, he became the Republicans' chief critic of the Dever Administration, attacking the Governor from the floor of the State Senate and in every possible headline for inefficiency and corruption. Dever once became so incensed with the young senator that he barred him from the Governor's office...
Charles Laughton has done a rare thing--he has taken George Bernard Shaw seriously. Instead of trying to pretend that Shaw is a clever buffoon and that Major Barbara is a drawing-room farce with some incidental ideas, Laughton has staged the play as the impassioned sermon which it really is. His actors therefore do not bounce about the stage, they stand still whenever possible, and frequently they stand facing the audience directly. To make sure that the audience--next to the playwright himself, the most important character in a Shavian drama--is drawn right into the action, he cleverly...
...budget, the college allows each girl to spend 50 cents a day on staples--flour, coffee, and other non-perishable products--and 30 cents for dinner. Out of this sum, the girls prepare breakfast in the house and eat dinner on a per capita basis. And with clever shopping, the small dinner allotment can be cut, as it was in Everett last year to 20 cents. Occasionally, such economy requires a drive to the open-air market in Haymarket Square for bulk purchases...
...Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things to come, as George Orwell saw them in his clever antitotalitarian tract, written in 1949, have assumed a horrifying political shape by 1984. The State is everything, terror is normalcy, love is a crime. Political shapes, however, are not the kind that lure millions to the movies, even in an election year. What's more, the camera...
Hirschfield, now 60, is inevitably thought of as the adviser to a ring of clever bookmakers. This upsets him. and his unvarying reply is: "I am no outcast...