Word: cowardly
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...Coward? "It might be asked," noted the resolution, "why these people did not take an open stand against Stalin and remove him from leadership." The answer, said the Central Committee, flatly contradicting Khrushchev's earlier admission that Stalin's subordinates were afraid to risk their necks, was not "that there was a lack of personal courage." It was, rather, that...
...Hope vehicle, the film has its points. Bob is pictured as a ne'er-do-well cartoonist and psychopathic coward who has turned to an analyst for help because Bromo Seltzer has failed him. Reduced to painting nudes on ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...
...honor roll for acting was almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
Amidst bustling all about the U.S. and the Caribbean area last year, blithe-spirited British Playwright-Actor-Composer Noel Coward got homesick and visited Britain for eight weeks. High price of gratifying his nostalgia: $70,000, the amount that Britain's revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England...
Convinced that Yalemen have won their Ys in art col lecting as well as most other walks of life, Book Publisher Thomas R. Coward ('19), president of Coward-McCann, Inc., set out to prove his point with an alumni loan show at the 124-year-old Yale University Art Gallery. The result, on view this week in New Haven, is a choice selection of 250 oils, watercolors and drawings from the private collections of Yale alumni, including such well-heeled art fanciers as New York Governor W. Averell Harriman ('13), U.S. Steel Corp.'s for mer Board...