Word: crispness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
...Broadway after wowing London for three years in Annie Get Your Gun, is a good showman too, and a very fetching singer. With a voice as hearable as it is husky, she rolls out Give a Little, Get a Little Love, rat-tat-tats the lyrics of a crisp patter song, If You Hadn...
...conference room at Kaesong, the five-man U.N. team were met by the five Red bargainers. North Korean General Nam II, leader of the Red delegation, turned out to be a fine figure of a man and a crisp, impressive soldier. He was resplendent in boots, red-striped trousers and gold-laden shoulders...
Matt Ridgway saw his opening and moved decisively. Over General Nam Il's head, he sent a crisp, soldierly message...
...year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some 5,000,000, rates as one of the liveliest news shows on television. Each 15-minute program begins with Commentator Swayze's crisp delivery of he latest news bulletins. As he talks, the camera may switch to an animated war map, or a newsreel film of U.S. troops in action. Sometimes there is a quick jump to Washington, London or Rome for filmed shots of political headliners and recorded interviews. After more news films...