Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...
...Twentieth Century: Names make news, but do men shape history? For generations to come, while philosophers debate this question, historians will drape much of the story of the first half of the 20th century about the grand and portly frame of a name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. The historians got a powerful exhibit for their case this week from a new and promising CBS television series dedicated to The Twentieth Century. Examining the events that make up the recent past, dominate the present and tinker with the near future, The Twentieth Century (Sundays at 6 p.m.) began its 26-week...
...their teens. In 1950 some friends bought them an Irish mare that showed signs of speed, and they took their stable to the races. To eke out their small winnings. Pat, the smaller of the two (he carries a solid 160 lbs. on a 5-ft.-11-in. frame), peeled off poundage and learned the rough art of the jumping jockey. Mike sharpened his skills as trainer. Both of them did so well that last season Pat was the country's leading steeplechase jock, and Mike was chosen by Mrs. Ogden Phipps to take over from her retiring trainer...
...monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...
...superbly, bottles seldom, and battles tirelessly for the best interests of his employers-a group of people about as easy to live with as a family of full-grown crocodiles. In the end, of course, the butler has the crocodiles eating out of his hand, and in the final frame the charming little beast who found him snaps him up in marriage...