Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie version of Marquand's own The Late George Apley "had nothing to do with what the book intended to convey. . . . When you tie up $2,000,000 in a movie, you become awfully careful not to offend very many people. . . . Movies wear me out. I'd rather sit at home and look at the sunset...
...restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites, and Moscow itself becomes a city instead of a featureless backdrop for the Kremlin...
...this loosely constructed first novel by ex-G.L, and onetime intelligence officer, John Burns. Sooner or later all his characters drift into it to drink, love, ponder or despair. There is no plot to relate them. Whatever unity Gallery possesses comes from Author Burns's ability to convey a sense of the tragedy that war has brought into the lives of the victors and the vanquished...
...that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...Lovers in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design. But after an Academy member huffed that it was "not a good moral influence," the 150-lb. Lovers was quietly removed from the show last week. Cried Mitzi: "A vulgar reason!" She had tried, she said, merely to convey the idea of a man and woman holding hands...