Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted on the sidewalks outside. At the storm's center, 2,800 delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace-Communists and both calculating and befuddled followers-wallowed in a sea of windy "peace" talk. In all the tumult, the delegates and their gusts of fog-laden dialectics could at first hardly be heard...
Died. Cecil Howard Lander, 68, British engineer who helped develop jet propulsion and Fido (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation), a device used in World War II to clear fogbound airports; of a heart attack, in Shrivenham, England...
...good deal less feminine and less successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release an atom bomb...
...action of the climactic murder scene, with Mother Danforth's family gathered around the Christmas tree, is powerfully done, without a trace of fuzz on the pen or fog in the eye. Yet Miss Bolton's is a lyric, not a dramatic talent. Whenever she tries to speak through a character who is not her own kind and her own sex, she loses her firm tone of voice. But, speaking for herself, Author Bolton has much to say. She says it in a style which Mary Britton Miller should have tried sooner...
Down to the Sea is no great picture, but it is tight enough at the seams to be seaworthy. Its big moments-notably the harpooning and the ship's tangle with an iceberg in the fog-have a fast-moving drive and conviction. Despite an occasional whiff of the studio, they have a real sea smell...