Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking on foreign policy, Monroney expressed disapproval for "Dulles' policy of massive rigidity." He warned that our European allies were starting to ignore us because of our lack of insight and of intelligent leadership...
...Hayes, and Peter Edelman are properly amateur actors, but play respectively the French ambassador, Chief Justice, and Alexander Throttlebottom (the vice president, in case you haven't heard) in a more than amateur manner. Hayes has a good voice, Patz a sure sense of timing, and Edelman a deep insight into the complexities of the character he portrays...
...constructed article. Prof. Wilder has with consummate skill defended the idea of commitment, an idea which comes only with the experience of constrasting the quality of education received from committed and non-committed men. I suspect that, from a religious standpoint, Harvard students will have gained a far deeper insight into the significance of Protestant thought from Dr. Buttrick's courses than from all the objective lectures of the University's philosophers and social scientists. This is in no way to deny the the great value, within their own area of competency, of these non-religious approaches...
...Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert Mulligan, 33, especially in his mob scenes, and Scottish Actor James Donald, 40, who portrayed the cynical Sydney Carton with insight and intensity. A veteran of the Old Vic stage and British movies (White Corridors, Brandy for the Parson), Donald was believable to the story's very last coincidence. As he moved toward the guillotine, he gave a freshly eloquent reading of a famed old line: "It is a far, far better...
...shaking fingers or skinny claws-but not for the playfully brandished rapier. Fencing verbally, the brothers sometimes neatly pink each other, even achieve an occasional moral louche. But they use buttoned foils on synthetic flesh. Nor, in place of human drama, is there any real psychological probing or moral insight. The wastrel's behavior, at the end, for example, has no ironic force and is wholly out of character -words are his forte, not gestures...