Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that a sensitive girl like Deborah would ever have married him. John Kerr puts remarkably little imagination into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. 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...
...carefully noted their suggestions. So acute is the shortage of labor and hand tools that in one steel mill the Americans saw women carrying heavy materials on a pallet instead of a wheelbarrow. Smith said he told them: "If you were to take the steel from a single giant crane and use it to turn out good wheelbarrows, picks and trowels and then teach people how to use them, it would help you very much...
...seemed anxious enough for a speedy settlement to make concessions. Federal mediators met with United Steelworkers' Boss David J. McDonald and U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, came away saying only that they would "be in touch." The workers themselves seemed unworried. Said one grizzled crane operator: "I guess I can eat and sleep no matter how long the strike lasts...
Timber Topper. In Jacksonville, figuring it was only a matter of time before a large, diseased magnolia tree in his yard would fall on the house, Walter Rivers hired a crane to uproot it, watched mutely as the crane slipped, sent the tree crashing through his roof...
Indeed, says Historian Crane Brinton, the alienation of intellectuals may be a thing of the past. "They really share, at bottom, the faith of their fellows . . . Some of these intellectuals despair-though by no means quietly-simply because they have heard talk of despair. Many of them, if you catch them unawares, look as if they were enjoying themselves, and not merely enjoying their unhappiness. In fact ... it begins to look nowadays in our perspective as if Sinclair Lewis and George F. Babbitt were brothers, under the skin...