Word: foisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foist such a tale upon clamorous Americans requires some audacity. Yet the attempt is successful because it is never strained and because each of the three principals has carefully developed a character. The Church of England is doubtless happy to be exported in such a complimentary fashion. It probably recognizes that there are few Anglican preachers who can get church-bound schoolboys to listen as attentively as Robert Donat succeeds in doing. Apparently, even the bulbous Dean of Gilchester, symbolic of church authority, approves in some small measure of his "live life while you live it" philosophy...
...this year. More important, however, were the commercial disadvantages of any "package" covering only five Saturday afternoons during the fall, and non-consecutive afternoons at that. Advertising men place a high value on what they call "unbroken impact"; if they are going to pay thousands of dollars to foist their razor blades on eastern football fans, they want those razor blades in plain view every Saturday of the fall...
...above title is, in this case, unavoidable. Success seems indeed to have spoiled George Axelrod. In his second play, the author of The Seven Year Itch has scraped together a group of stock Hollywood characters, armed them with the feeblest of gags, and had the presumption to try to foist the result on the public as a humorous and slightly meaningful commentary on modern success. The result is not only meaningless, but unfunny...
...murdering and battering old men and then yowl "Mama" when run down. You are breeding a race of monsters, nurtured in a diseased way of life that is based upon atom bombs, crime comics, bad movies and the cult of the almighty dollar . . . This is what you want to foist upon the world . . . You fool only your own "booboisie...
...ultra-conservative committee formed to stop the efforts of radical groups to "foist a foreign concept into the school system," appeared this week to be further complicating the much-publicized Pasadena. California progressive education dispute...