Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal of accomodation has had its drawbacks--having no other goal than team cooperation and holding the line, the Eisenhower administration has lacked information, planning, and drive. The President's trust in simple trust resulted in none of the constructive planning which might have eased integration. Disbelief in the value of planning has caused the dismemberment of federal power development and flood control. Because he seems to have no aim except to avoid--to avoid socialism, to avoid war, to avoid trouble with the team--he has lacked push. Crucial aid to schools fell through largely because the President trusted...
...which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
After reading for 30 minutes, Judge Keech came to his final words: "I shall ask the marshal to call in the jury, and I shall direct a verdict of acquittal." Icardi broke into tears. Justice Department attorneys gaped in disbelief. Whether Aldo Icardi was guilty or innocent under terms of American justice would never be known, for Judge Keech's decision appeared to have ended, once and for all, an eleven-year, $300,000 attempt to make a case against him. But, in doing so, the judge had laid down a sharp restriction on uninhibited congressional investigation that Congress...
...phonograph blares out with heavy-handed irony, "Everything in the dream was lovely." A somewhat stiff performance by Michael Redgrave as the officer does not help much either. He is overshadowed by Alexander Knox, who performs convincingly as one of the passengers, a civil servant caught between intellectual disbelief and emotional fear of superstition. In the end, the picture leaves the impression that it is laboring hard to appear profound rather than merely entertaining...
...purchase's worth. Nearly a year later, he took them to the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem where incredulous scholars estimated they were written at the beginning of the Christian era. The remarkable find was soon announced to the world. It was received with amazement, if not disbelief...