Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprised, the reporters immediately began checking into this unusual (for Eisenhower) political fillip. The Second District seat is held by Democrat Edward Boland of Springfield, who was so sure of re-election that he planned to spend most of his time campaigning for Furcolo. G.O.P. planners reasoned that entering an Eisenhower-blessed candidate against Boland would ease the pressure on Saltonstall and bring a few thousand extra Republican voters to the polls. No one really expected Bradley to win his own election, but G.O.P. strategists were counting on him for a sacrifice hit. This intricate piece of planning, with White...
...tapestries, representing the four seasons of life, are crowded with enough human figures, astrological signs, pagan gods and goddesses, animals, buildings and landscapes to satisfy the most voracious gallerygoer. They gave an added fillip to the Met's opening last week of its refurbished galleries of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative...
...Caine Mutiny Court Martial has been slicked up, speeded up, shaped to measure for that treasure house of behaviorism, a courtroom. But the maneuvers always have pertinence: thus, the easy laughs at the expense of the psychiatrist are an integral part of the trial itself, not just a fillip for the show. What is sharp in the play is all the sharper for what is deliberately flat; no one understands better than Director Laughton the counter-theatricalism of the quiet manner...
Playwright Taylor has a nice ear for lines, a sharp eye for manners. But his heroine never quite takes shape, and his plot seems too much without being enough. But if Sabrina is only fair, H. C. Potter's staging gives it a decided fillip...
GOVERNMENT housing men hope to give the housing industry a new fillip by 1) cutting down-payment requirements on FHA loans (now 10% to 20%), and 2) raising the mortgage limit from $16,000 to about $20,000. With time running out on this session of Congress, the proposals face a race against the clock...