Word: luke-warm
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Although President Eisenhower and other Administration officials have frequently expressed concern over the problem, they still apparently resist a program of general Federal aid. A Committee in the last Congress favorably reported such a measure, but the bill died, partly because of the luke-warm attitude of the Administration. The President, in his special message on education next week, should accept the need for an enlarged construction program. Economy is both important and desirable, but the Federal Government should not sacrifice an adequate school system...
When Hollywood directors tackle history, they generally dilute it almost out of existence with luke-warm plot-material and sensational pap. In contrast, the French-made movie, "Marseillaise," has happily succeeded in making the truth palatable without jazzing it up or cheapening it. The result is a feast alike for the uncritical moviegoer and the historical purist. The film makes no pretense at being complete or prophetic, but confines itself to a few brief months during 1789, the so-called "honeymoon of the Revolution," focussing interest on the adventures of a Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag...
...pressed by her omnipotent, omnipresent lover (Preston Foster). There are also germs of amusement in her dilemma when she has to choose between submission to her presumptuous lover (the same Mr. Foster), smugly on- sconced in his steam-yacht; and death by drowning with her wine-soaked, brine-soaked, luke-warm sweetheart (Ceasar Romero) in his tiny, tossing sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches the spirit of the thing, and elsewhere in the program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years...
...Bernie's orchestra in the movie, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees on the stage hardly shone in unrivalled brilliance. But Rudy did have a very excellent mimie with him, who stole the show, and must have exasperated his master by his innumerable encores and curtain calls. The luke-warm so-whatness of it all cheered the chippies in the third gallery; all grapefruit aside, the lay of last minstrel was more salivary than sexy...
...large part to the governmental interference with the instruments of production. But it is apparent that this would be no real opposition, and could never result in the placing of more Republicans in the Capital. For opposition must be opposition and not like some of the well-written but luke-warm lugubrious-like criticisms of a Lippmann...