Word: cumbrous
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...embarrassing hook. Communist propaganda has stressed one magic word: Einheit (unity). The West's (and Adenauer's) answer was more complicated to explain and less attractive to sell: unification only after integration, i.e., after West Germany is safely armed inside the European Defense Community, the cumbrous French plan for a six-nation European Army. In effect, this seemed to be putting second what most Germans wanted put first. The only issue likely to defeat Adenauer at the Sept. 6 elections is German unity, a cause that his Socialist opponents have tried to monopolize...
...against this background that British Author Angus Wilson moves for a "deserved re-estimation" in his short, sharp critical study, Emile Zola. Wilson's summary: Zola was "one of the great cumbrous, magnificent pithecanthropi of 19th century literature . . . the close companion of Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky, a little less than them . . . but having ... a strange clarity of direct vision which their great fusions of the dream kingdom and the waking world obliterate...
...trouble lies partly in the overall design of Paint Your Wagon, in its concern with the swarming life-the rise, feminization and decline-of an entire mining town. Though fine for choral or choreographic doings, the crowded cast is cumbrous and untidy for storytelling. For half the evening, moreover, it is virtually an all-male performance-and the show needs women almost as badly as the miners. The gals' arrival brightens things up; but, for all that, the town only seems larger, the show longer...
...work he created was a vast chronicle of the seizure of the land from the Indians by the French, the defeat of their "effete and cumbrous feudalism" by the English. In the final pages he discussed the defeat of England in turn by the colonies. His purpose was to inform the people of the struggles that had been necessary to win the continent for them, to warn them against the practices that had lost it for their predecessors...
...elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...