Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the fact that a good actor must interpret his role intelligently, The Confidential Clerk makes tremendous demands on its performers. As Simpkins, Doughlas Watson seems unable to grasp the plane between God and man upon which he should stand. Consequently, he seems a bit over detached. Claude Rains, as Sir Claude, although he reads his lines extremely well, seems to have an equally difficult time of deciding whether he should be hard and dominating or confused and sentimental. He is a little too much of the Latter. Newton Blick makes an excellent Eggerson, however. He is a blessed soul...
...compromise attitude. It reflected Eisenhower's desire to consolidate Western strength and was, I feel, entirely justified considering France's delaying tactics on EDC and a European federation. America, the world's strongest nation, has been rejecting its responsibilities as a strong and decisive world leader. Truman failed to grasp the meaning of world leadership. Truman's foreign policy, once it recognized the Russian threat, is not all black nor all white on his matter, but Europeans strongly opposed to Communism characterized the world situation like this: Russia is weak and unafraid; America is strong and afraid...
...farmyard becomes dangerous when Smudge and Pudge meet the bees'' to matters of an interplanetary nature ("carefully checked by experts"). Most of the authors ignored the settled conviction of that old constructional genius, Kenneth Grahame, that the best way to bridge the classic chasm is to grasp what the adult world looks like from the child's side...
...airport passenger flights leave daily for most points in the United States and abroad, and the resident on Coral Gables or El Paso will find the service more economical even than coach travel. Christmas in London, Paris, or Rome--at the peak of the season--is easily within the grasp of any solvent passport-holder...
...Communists dared only once last week to screen a North Korean compound, and they took another humiliating defeat: explanations 227: conversions 6. One P.W. argued two hours with his explainer about the Soviet loan to North Korea, then remarked: "You just don't seem to have any grasp of economics." Another P.W. asked the Indian chairman, in perfect English: "Doesn't this all seem a bit ridiculous to you?" The Indian grinned. On the P.W. tents now, beside the red, white and blue flags of Nationalist China, hung black and white streamers that read: "We Support the Indian...