Word: heavyhandedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unbalanced Ferocity. This year they have made it. As a curt nod to modern times, Schwartzwalder has installed the winged-T. But basically the Syracuse attack is built around an anachronistic, unbalanced single-wing line that double-teams and cross-blocks with old-fashioned ferocity. To get the most out...
Despite its perilous beginnings, the Khrushchev visit had turned out substantially to the U.S.'s advantage. In his second week he had won grudging respect for his energy and his drive, if not for his heavyhanded, oft-reiterated message.
Newark-born Philip Roth, 26, onetime English instructor at the University of Chicago, is a Jew himself and writes of Jews with an absorbing ambivalence of hate and love. Author Roth's broadly farcical stories, The Conversion of the Jews and Epstein, are too heavyhanded; but his tender passages...
Set down in the middle of it without bearings, the reader at first sees only blurred shapes. An undertaker, in the first of a series of long interior monologues, recognizes Stella, Machek's beautiful youngest daughter. With guilt and confusion, he recalls a day ten months before when Stella...
TIME made rather unfortunate use of the adjective "heavyhanded" in applying it to MGM's portrayal of teen-age brutality in big-city schools. It might better have been applied to both Mrs. Luce's decision to boycott the film Blackboard Jungle, or TIME'S defense of...