Word: invents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB PRINCE'S STRANGE HOBBY...
...easy to transform a good play into a good movie. Perhaps someone will someday invent a "play-grinder" so that movie makers can insert a good drama, turn a crank and pull out a different, but equally good, movie. But since there is no such machine now, producers and directors must use their own judgment in deciding what will be effective for the screen. Stanley Kramer and Laslo Benedek have guessed wrong in Death of a Salesman...
...transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...images might be the electronic organ, sound wave instruments, and that the ability to write music directly onto film might hasten the changes. But, comforting his audience, he said: "We, the composers, are the ones who must give meaning to whatever sonorous images the engineers can invent...
...intellectual frustration over not being able to understand China," he said, "even such men as Harold Stassen are inadvertantely led to invent things." Fairback was referring to Stassen's charge that Owen Lattimore submitted a ten point pro-Communist plan at a 1949 Far Eastern Policy talk...