Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats are united. Since, in time of peace and prosperity, no Democrat would feel called upon to defend a Republican budget, Johnson found it easy to unite his party against it, meanwhile managing to gloss over the deep Democratic splits between Southerners and civil-rights advocates, conservatives and Fair Dealers...
...Already." Moreover, John McClellan has finally brought his temper under control. In 1954 he returned to Arkansas to run for re-election against Fair Dealing ex-Governor Sid McMath, his bitterest political enemy. McMath knew just how to get McClellan's goat: accuse him of being a pawn of the powerful Arkansas Power & Light Co. McClellan's conservatism has often paralleled that of A.P. & L., but McMath was among the few people in Arkansas who professed to believe that John McClellan was, or could be, anybody's pawn...
...Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed...
...hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success, Van Gogh has already brought Kodalli nibbles from the Vienna Opera and Brussels' 1958 world's fair...
Miss Bergman proves particularly inept as our fair heroine. The romantic side of the story completely fails to be convincing. Scarcely looking like a simple peasant girl in either attire or manner, most of her role consists of staring into the hero's eyes after love-at-first-sight and screaming after him, "Roberto, Roberto" as he departs courageously into the darkness...