Word: knits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works). His fiscal foundation: scoring an occasional Hollywood film. Besides writing crackerjack scores for such movies as Specter of the Rose, The Sniper, The Juggler, In a Lonely Place, Antheil admits that he is quietly fostering a reputation as a musical medicine man who can pull a loosely knit film together by music alone. "If I say so myself," he says, "I've saved a couple of sure flops." Since he has no wish to be tagged as a "Hollywood composer," he limits himself to two pictures a year...
...tightly knit, nor is the Crown so powerful, as the Empire that Disraeli proclaimed for Victoria, adding the jewel of India to her crown. Ireland and Burma have broken completely free. The countries formerly called dominions today prefer to be called by the less-subservient name "realm." Six of them (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa) recognize Elizabeth as their own individual Queen as well as Queen of the Commonwealth, but three of these (Ceylon, Pakistan and South Africa) do not accept her as Defender of the Faith. The seventh realm, India, is a republic, and does...
...documentary about India's great leader. Culled from more than 10,000 ft. of film shot over a 37-year period, from Gandhi's early years in South Africa as a successful lawyer to his assassination in New Delhi in 1948, the highlights of his career are knit together with a stirring narration by Quentin Reynolds...
...Hungry Mobs. Last month a religious group known as the Ahraris, influenced by fanatic mullahs, demanded that the government declare half a million members of the Ahmadiya sect to be non-Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the turn of the century declared himself a Nabi, or prophet of Allah. There was politics in the mullahs' demands, because Pakistan's Foreign Minister, able, bearded Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is an Ahmadiya.* The Ahraris' mullahs demanded his removal. When the government refused, the mullahs began stirring...
...aimless cruelty of the Russians and the purposeful vindictiveness of some of his fellow Germans, who had heard about the leaflet and regarded von Einsiedel as a traitor. Wonderingly, not sure of his own motives, von Einsiedel felt himself pulled by the "magical attraction" of Communism's "well-knit, clear religion." He joined the small group of German officers, under Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, in the Russian-sponsored Committee for Free Germany...