Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end no flat answer had yet come. Van Doren was in hiding, having added nothing to a midweek wire to Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris that on the program he was "never assisted in any form." (Van Doren said that he had made the same statement to a New York county grand jury months ago.) His failure to respond to the subcommittee's invitation to testify had already caused NBC, which employs him at $50,000 a year as consultant and as a Today commentator, to suspend him. And many of the characters who had surrounded...
...attempting to add up the credits-and the debits-of the Khrushchev trip, no one could arrive at a flat sum. The West has many times before received promises from Communism and seen them broken without the blinking of an eye. This time, if the Soviet leader really meant what he said, it appeared that at least some few forward steps had been taken toward creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco...
Sapphire (Rank; Universal-International) is a semiprecious British attempt to admix a sociological problem drama with a flat-out murder mystery. The jewel of the title is a beautiful, auburn-haired girl; as the film begins, she is found lying face up on the hard ground of Hampstead Heath with six knife wounds around her heart...
...investigation widens, enters the caves of Negro London, from the lichenous flat of Tribal Chieftain Horace Big Cigar to Tulip's, a jazz club where a superbly directed, superbly erotic dance explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens...
...Administration plans to make the parking program financially self-supporting by charging everyone who uses Institute facilities, whether in open lots or garages, a flat annual fee. Instead of the free permits which M.I.T. now issues, resident students, faculty, and commuters will be required to purchase a year's pass, costing between...