Word: dreadfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As for about the Helen, Rossana Podestá is a charming girl, but the customers like King Priam (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), may well ask: "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?" And is this Hector (Harry Andrews), dreadful in his wrath and fierce Achilles (Stanley Baker), both with...
"A Lunkhead." For its opening witness in three days of Washington hearings, the subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post. Glaser said that he was a Communist when he worked on a copy...
Richard Sorge left private misery and public ruin in his spoor; history may remember him for a bitter, accidental play on words. His name in German spells "sorrow." As Sorge went about his dreadful career, Pope Pius XI was preparing his famous German-language encyclical against totalitarianism, whose opening words...
This, and not the hypo of sensationalism, is the point of the movie, and the point strikes deep. The picture is sometimes a penny dreadful, because the scriptwriters have seldom consulted their hearts as carefully as they have calculated their effects; and sometimes it is an oldfashioned, hellfire sermon against...
If the best fiction writers could be trusted, life was at worst a dreadful and at best an ironic business. Doubt, violence and cynicism hardly left shelf space for the few novels that tried to stress values; yet there were a few that took a stand for the more attractive...