Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word & Suffering. Berggrav's book closes with a dramatic lecture which was illegally distributed in Norway during the Nazi occupation. Citing text after Lutheran text, it effectively scotches the theory that Luther enjoined obedience to all governments, whether good or bad. In the grip of a state he knows to be evil, there is only one thing Christians can do -speak out and suffer the consequences...
...interested in is profit, and so they take steps to control the wealth of the country ... A country may appear to be free and independent if you consult geography or an atlas. But if you will look behind the veil, you will find that it is in the grip of another country, or rather of its bankers and big businessmen . . ." When India got its independence, Nehru was braced to resist the onslaught of rapacious U.S. business. When it did not come, he was more chagrined than relieved. One of the reasons for his 1949 trip...
Alfred Drake's direction is generally aimless. As a contrast, in the dance numbers George Balanchine keeps a firm grip on things. The dancing ensemble is energetic and good, and soloists Peter Conlow and Gloria Patrice are a pleasure to watch. Balanchine's choreography is of the rough-and-tumble sort. At one point Monday night the orchestra trombonist looked a little worried about being hit by a flying chorus girl, but the danger soon passed...
...Tentacles. Through Continental, the Capone syndicate has a powerful grip on every big bookmaking operation in the country. The committee first picked up its far-flung tentacles in Miami. A man named Harry Russell suddenly appeared in Miami shortly after the 1948 election of Governor Fuller Warren. There he set about muscling into the S & G Syndicate, which did a $26 million-a-year business supplying Continental's racing wire news to its own bookies. Continental abruptly switched off S & G's service. After several days of futile resistance, S & G took in a new partner-Harry Russell...
...news and the President reportedly listens in. Ordinary viewers are apt to be more interested in the bearbaiting aspects of the show. Terrier-like Producer Spivak, onetime (1944-1950) editor & publisher of the American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston...