Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the film's many crises, the cast carries on with feverish emotion, as though the only way to express great feeling is with a shout or a groan. The octopus alone manages to preserve his dignity, and he gets stabbed in the last reel. But despite the success of Wagner's sponge-fishing expedition, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is at best a meagre catch for the audience...
...tastelessness of commercial TV. In London's weekly Time and Tide, Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Punch and onetime U.S. correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has written a memorable answer to the enemies of commercial broadcasting. His arguments have meaning not only for Britons, but for Americans who often groan over commercials. Excerpts...
...necessary before setting to work on his first TV drama series, Tales of the City (alternate Thursdays, 8:30 p.m., CBS). His conclusions about TV: "There is no such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated to saying everything without words. The actors stand around and grunt and say 'Dats so' or 'Ain't dat right?' This is stupid." Hecht's decision: "I figured there was one thing...
...assumption that the year of crisis with Russia, "the year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis was 1952; in 1949 it was 1954; last year it was 1956.) As their economies began to creak and their political supporters to groan under the strain, European leaders tried to persuade Dean Acheson & Co. to spread the effort thinner over a longer period. Winston Churchill was roundly condemned in the U.S. last year for proclaiming a stretch-out. Now the U.S. talked the same language...
...easy to groan at, but impossible to quarrel with a tuition hike. It has been coming ever since the inflation of the Korean War. But any tuition rise at Harvard starts of frenzied grubbing for more scholarship funds, more student employment, and other ways to help the students from average income families meet the new rates. It shoves still farther into the future the day when Harvard can achieve a truly national student body, both geographically and economically, Because these unpleasant repercussions are inevitable, any tuition rise should be as small as possible...