Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swelled partly because there was a real need for its services-spreading the knowledge and skills that have made the U.S. farmer the most efficient and richest in the world, and strengthening his vital position in the U.S. economy. It grew, too, because of bureaucracy's inborn knack for propagating itself. And it grew because farmers had come to realize that when they stood together, a cohesive one-fifth of the nation's voters, they could manipulate the U.S. Congress and plunge both arms elbow-deep in the vaults under Fort Knox. Lumped together, the representatives...
Strikingly photographed in black & white, the film is directed with an eye to realistic detail, an ear for the script's frequently natural dialogue and a knack for building suspense. It also has some good performances by Dan Duryea, John McIntire and Millard Mitchell, as well as Actors Stewart and McNally. Heroine Shelley Winters, who seems lost in all the uproar, might as well have been lost in the script...
...idea man, however, he is probably unsurpassed in Hollywood. His mind is a storehouse of plots, story angles and gimmicks, and with an extraordinary, freewheeling inventiveness he reworks them endlessly into different patterns. He is also a merciless story critic. Respecting talent, he has a knack for channeling it and knows when to leave it alone. For all his autocratic belligerence, he can quickly drop an idea of his own when someone else comes up with a better...
...best British portraits, never before seen in the U.S., went on exhibition in Washington's National Gallery. Entitled The Skater, it portrayed an elegant gentleman named William Grant taking a whirl on the ice in St. James's. Park. The picture showed that Stuart quickly learned the knack of making his subjects look noble and lifelike at the same time...
...serving maids who still exist have lost the old knack of swooning, and novels, which have become as plentiful as internal-combustion engines, are no longer written, as was Pamela, in the form of letters. More typical of today's mass-production age is the so-called "novel series"-a whole cavalry charge of novels built around one leading figure (Thomas Mann's Joseph books) or one group of figures (Jules Remains' Men of Good Will) or one family (John Galsworthy's Forsytes) or even one dwelling-place (the Jalna of Mazo de la Roche...