Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IT is our policy to check the Communist use of threat of force by having retaliatory power and the will to use it, so that the Communist use of force would obviously be unprofitable to them. I emphasize both the power and the will, for one without the other is...
While his family is forced to escape to western Europe, Zhivago escapes from the partisans for one last reunion with Lara. It is a weird, snowbound, dreamlike idyl on the edge of disaster, rapturous with love but also with an almost Chekhovian paralysis of the will. Eventually Lara is swept...
Capote never received a rejection slip. He peddled his first story to Storybook magazine when he was seventeen, "and I've sold everything since. Of course, I'm not very prolific. I've only written a total of twenty stories in all, and I spend up to five months on...
Critic and columnist, bartender and barfly last week got a startling reminder of A Night to Remember. Lest anyone miss the imminent arrival of J. Arthur Rank's movie re-creation of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic, Rank flacks flooded the mails with swizzle sticks topped by the...
WEINBERG'S slum background contrasts so sharply with that of the traditional Ivy League Wall Streeter that he uses it as an asset, plays up his Brooklyn background ("I'm just a dumb guy from P.S. 13"). One of eleven children of a wholesale liquor dealer, he never...