Word: frightfully
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...week's end, both the White House and the State Department were still mum about their plans. It was a considered silence: any plea to the Kremlin born of desperation would be interpreted as a sign of weakness and fright, and a sign of weakness in this uneasy hour might prove an ever-greater risk to peace than an H-bomb...
Having made three more movies in England (one is Alfred Hitchcock's Stage-fright), he went to Hollywood a few weeks ago with his Scottish bride of six months. The screen's hottest "discovery" in many months, now working on another picture for Warner (Lightning Strikes Twice), Todd is still somewhat dazed by the studio's Academy Award aspirations for his performance...
...illuminating essay on T. S. Eliot he anticipates and answers many of the questions readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern poetry...
Margot remembers the day Markova left the company. "Madame [de Valois] was talking to my mother. She said rather casually, 'I think we'll drop the classical ballets for a year and next year I'll put Margot in Giselle.' I absolutely died of fright...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...