Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least once a month some investment expert asks plump, balding Robert E. Wilson, 61, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, the same irksome question: How will atomic power affect the oil industry? Last week Oilman Wilson* stood up before the third annual atomic energy convention of the National Industrial Conference Board to give the oil industry's answer. Said...
...innocence or guilt. Youngdahl himself is a man with an impeccable record of past public service; regardless of his personal feelings about Lattimore's guilt, it is hardly likely that he would let them influence the wholly legal decision of whether or not the counts against the Far East expert are concrete...
...BarefootContessa (Figaro-United Artists) starts off as a series of expert thrusts through the tinsel of the perennial Hollywood rags-to-stardom saga. But Writer-Director-Producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who has successfully charred his bread and butter before (All About Eve). this time reaches so hard for significance that he loosens his grip on the ironic Hollywood spoof he almost has in hand...
...even the neat lines, Bogart's expert delivery and some effectively acid scenes fail to make Contessa much more than an international-set soap opera...
...Persian headgear to the Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to Kon-Tiki to the Prankish Lex Salica to U.S. television, gives the reader a heady sense of omniscience and omnipresence. Toynbee is at his most fascinating and most expert as a technician of civilization. When he ex plains a civilization's functioning, he evokes the kind of satisfaction that goes with learning the workings of a complex machine, except that Toynbee's big machines are powered by mankind and subject to the tragedies of blood, the triumphs...