Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source of his success: an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Democrats and old Non-partisan Leaguers who crossed party lines to pay their respects to Wild Bill. Langer's lightweight Democratic opponent in November: State Senator...
Seldom has the hate-twisted face of prejudice been more starkly depicted. But the story dealt with symptoms, ventured only timidly into the shadowy causes of the disease. Admitted Author Serling himself: "I particularly did not like the staging and writing of the last act. It was overwritten." Retorted Playhouse 90's Producer Martin Manulis: "It was a great tribute to the ad agencies that they ever let this show...
...Nobody knows that Ragnar is the boy's father, and Eric (Tony Curtis) loathes the old brute almost as much as he hates his half brother Einar (Kirk Douglas), who is Ragnar's legitimate son and heir. One day Eric flies his hawk at Einar's face, and the beast tears out one of his eyes-a scene that is especially effective in Technicolor. In reprisal, Eric is chained in a tidal pool to be eaten alive by crabs, but he calls on Odin, and the tide goes...
...heroine of this surf opera is 19-year-old Jordan Moore, a button-bright blonde girl who dreams of carving a career niche in the great stone face of Manhattan. When she hears that the "mass media" set spends its summers on Phoenix Island, Jordan signs on for a baby-tending stint with a one-child family named French-an experience that gradually turns into Operation Mad Ball...
...unlike most European (or American) intellectuals, who are apt to be apologetic or patronizing when they praise the U.S., Maritain proclaims his love with unstinted ardor. Having taught in and known the U.S. for almost a quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken for granted by many Americans. Probably Maritain's central point: "[Americans are] the least materialist among the modern peoples which have attained the industrial stage...