Word: dourness
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Needing a dupe to carry out a delicate mission in Prague, Morley hires an unpublished writer (Dirk Bogarde). "I'd be a lot happier if he'd been to a decent school," says Morley's aide in dour appraisal of the new man. Bogarde believes that he is a trade representative sent to pick up a message from a Czechoslovakian glass factory. Instead he picks up the Communist intelligence chief's voluptuous daughter (Sylva Koscina), one of those girls to whom defection and seduction are practically synonymous. Of course, the two fall in love...
...picture tube of his own smoking incessantly while he commented on the guided tour that had been arranged in elaborate detail. Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rocky Graziano, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Krishna Menon opened their homes to Murrow. And it was on this program that the dour newscaster was first observed to laugh over...
Died. Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 74, dour former Supreme Court Justice who defended the New Deal ("You can't eat the Constitution") when he was U.S. Democratic Senator from Indiana (1935-41), remained sympathetic to the Administration after President Truman appointed him to the high court in 1949, backing the Justice Department in most antitrust appeals and concurring in the unanimous school desegregation decision of 1954, retiring as a result of pernicious anemia in 1956; of intestinal hemorrhaging; in New Albany...
...help pay the freight, Belaúnde has raised import and mining taxes, tightened collections and cracked down on tax dodgers. The result has been a 60% jump in tax revenues. Yet his budget deficit is projected at $80 million this year-up 10% from 1964-and brings dour predictions of sharper inflation and opposition howls that Belaúnde will spend the country into bankruptcy...
...good deal of the credit for this must, of course, go to the actors. Anthony Quinn--well, sooner or later he had to play a grizzled Greek. He's always looked like Zorba the Greek should look. In this film, he is so hearty that all the dour faces in a waiting room break into responsive chuckles when he laughs; so tender that he can console the courtesan for the loss of her lovers, the English, French, Italian, and Russian generals; so defiant that after a mine he has attempted to open collapses, he shakes his fist at the obstinate...