Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successor as head of the Socialists, who led the Opposition assault. His voice ringing out with assurance, Gaitskell took charge of the House with what a veteran member called "possibly the best speech he has given in Parliament." He summed up, as government debaters had not bothered to, the grave consequences of General Glubb's expulsion from command of Jordan's British-paid army: "It increases the danger of war. It is a very serious setback to the policy of the Baghdad Pact. It accordingly becomes clear, surely, that we must have a reassessment of our whole policy...
Although he delivers final judgement at the salesman's grave, Charlie, his best friend, never knew the man's needs. John Fenn turns in the best performance of his career in the role of the sympathetic and successful neighbor, who could not see Willy's deep lack, the emptiness of which he dreamed most of all. It is Earl Edgerton, in the half-real role of Uncle Ben, who represents this dream. Properly stiff, arrogant, and inhuman, Edgerton conveys the symbolic nature of his part: the power and glory of tangible success, of almost physical conquest, a confusion of real...
...Perry: Penn-Texas "looks like a conspiracy of some type to raid the stock market . . . A slugging operation." After hearing testimony that Penn-Texas still owed $2,300,000 on $4,300,000 it paid for 100,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse stock, the judge said he had "grave doubt" that Penn-Texas legally owned the shares it claimed. Crowed Bob Morse Jr.: "Obviously, Silberstein has much to learn about legitimate American business...
...Kamala Markandaya, 32, chronicles this head-on culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this hurricane is Author Markandaya's heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with the handsome blond Englishman. Mama quickly scotches that outing...
There are indeed great problems and grave dangers, said Dulles in substance, but the U.S. and the free world have made substantial gains against a failing Soviet Union policy...