Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the week's exchange of views was finished, California Negroes were shifting from Stevenson to Kefauver in noticeable numbers. Said Franklin H. Williams, West Coast counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "Stevenson uses high-sounding phrases, but they lack content." In Manhattan the New York Post, long a devout supporter of Stevenson, cried in a full-page editorial that his utterances on the discrimination issue had been "inadequate . . . fragmentary and uninspired." At Miami Beach, where the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken...
Welles, in his first attempt at motion pictures, introduced photographic and dramatic effects which Hollywood, in its years of experience, had never come close to. Fifteen years later, Citizen Kane still stands as a masterpiece of directing, acting, and content. It was no easy feat to capture the life of a man of 76 years in 119 minutes. That the film does have discontinuities and lacks a strong sense of forward movement and plot was inevitable. Yet the film maintains a great sense of the dramatic and is quite gripping...
...Greeks have a good case in Cyprus (TIME, Jan. 9), but they are not content to leave it at that. Day and night last week, as they have been doing for months, the official Athens radio and the excitable Greek press piled on faggots of falsity and fancy to feed the fire of the Cyprus problem...
...Ponder Heart belongs to a village idiot who is milked for laughs. The laugh content is perhaps too high, for the sensitive viewer chokes with indignation at the ponderous, and heartless treatment of old Dan Ponder. At the Shubert...
...content with chopping 0.9 seconds off his own 100 record and 0.2 seconds off the Crimson 50 record against Navy Last Saturday, Dyer promptly relowered his 50 mark from...