Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dark. In the immediate sense, the big news from Budapest was that the Kremlin could no longer paper over or conceal the splits and fissures in the Communist monolith (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that, Budapest was a new vindication of the old proposition that government, however strong, cannot indefinitely have its way without the consent of the governed, however it might seem to be dulled. "The soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night," Winston Churchill once said memorably, citing this proposition, "can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where...
...work of Kandinsky, Feininger and Marc bring us to the realm of serious struggle with angles of vision. The myth-like atmosphere of Marc's painting, dominated by great blue horses, does not conceal the disintegration of simple planes...
...this, he told Juliana bluntly that he had given orders to broadcasting authorities not to permit the Queen to go on the air. Meanwhile, far from fulfilling his ordained role in the masquerade of renewed connubiality, Prince Bernhard, the Queen's husband, made less and less effort to conceal his true feelings, and Princess Beatrix, heiress to the throne, who is known to sympathize with her father, moved out of her mother's palace to take a room with an official's family near her university at Leiden...
...Technicolor, not VistaVision can conceal the overripe condition of the subject; and the silly new script ("Your rapid maneuvers leave me breathless indeed"), along with a down-the-same-old-rut production, is ill-calculated to restore life. The principals, Kathryn Grayson and a European tenor called Oreste, sing about as well as most people do in the movies, though at times the audience may find itself wishing that Oreste, who can holler pretty loud when he's a mind to, had two names and only one lung...
...other hand, there is evidence that the U.S. consumer is an amazingly reliable credit risk, with repossessions running at the scanty rate of 1.18% of loans. Furthermore, credit statistics are misleading, since they conceal the fact that many new consumer debts are new obligations in name only. The vast postwar increase in home ownership, for example, means that millions of families pay the banker instead of the landlord; when a family buys a car or a TV set, its cash outlay for public transportation or entertainment decreases. Moreover, while the U.S. citizen in 1956 owes more, he also owns more...