Word: mire
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Some excerpts from the cover stories: "Modern man has become accustomed to machines with superhuman muscles, but machines with superhuman brains are still a little frightening." "The Pentagon ... is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when...
Dominated by "guilt, fear, and loneliness"-already, in short, exhibiting the characteristic ailments of his era-Arthur at the age of ten discovered all by himself the characteristic cure of his generation. He decided, after reading the story in which Baron Munchausen yanks himself out of the mire by the hair of his own head, that he could save his own soul in the same...
...himself a graduating student and at the same time the university's chancellor- the Prince mused: "Increased possession . . . does not bring .with it contentment or peace of mind. Our distracted world needs some sort of philosophical background if it is ever to pull itself out of the mire of ignorance, hate and misery. Over 25 hundred years ago, Plato said that it was not until kings became philosophers or philosophers became kings that the ideal society would be built . . . Kings," he added wistfully, "are having a rather bad time of it these days...
...screenplay, with its rich lather of plot manipulation and sentimentality, verges on soap opera. But George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens' direction is clean and uncluttered. Stevens has a camera magic that evokes a world of romantic illusion: the frustrated lovers caught up in a slow mire of overlapping dissolves, of magnificent closeups, of telephones ringing unanswered, of rainswept city streets...
...amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right in the middle of its taxiway. Through the U.S. base runs a public road always open to French...