Word: fruitlessness
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Susskind has flirted with Hollywood in the past, but he had insufficient power to make his presence felt. After fruitless chats with M-G-eminence Benny Thau, he came away saying: "The only thing we have in common is breathing." His current mission, as he sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...
...meeting was a preliminary one or a summit meeting. If preliminary, Nikita would come; if a summit, he would not-unless, of course, President Eisenhower was prepared to apologize publicly and abjectly for the U-2 spy plane and to agree to punish the guilty. After an hour of fruitless telephoning, a tight-lipped Charles de Gaulle decided to end the farce. He wrote out the Western reply: "Mr. Khrushchev's absence was registered, and General de Gaulle took note of it. In these conditions, the discussions that had been foreseen could not take place." The summit was dead...
...1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes to grips with Dymphna Uprichard (pronounced "Eweprichard"), a pale, leggy hoyden who adores wrestling by the hour in hallways and on sofas...
Roman Candle is one of those mechanized gag-farces that, along with a few good gags, are full of forced plot twists and vaudeville turns, broken-down scene writing and fruitless inventions...
...with the debt. U.S. Negotiator Charles E. Bohlen, longtime (1950-57) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and now Special Assistant to Secretary of State Herter, patiently explained that trade bans were largely Congress' affair, and what about the lend-lease bill? Last week, his patience worn thin after four fruitless sessions, "Chip" Bohlen broke off the talks, marking the third U.S. failure since 1947 to get a pennies-on-the-dollar settlement of a bad debt...