Word: moment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have seen the moment of my greatness flicker...
...Bucharest, Rumanians forgot for a moment the might of the Red army in the account of the latest U.S. super-super-super Flying Fortress. It was so huge that the pilot, hearing a noise behind him, had to dispatch a courier by motorcycle to locate the trouble. "Just a football game on the lower deck," came the report. Another ruckus. "A water polo match in the swimming pool." A terrific bang. "Now the boys are furious, sir," reported the messenger. "A Russian plane was trying to buzz us. It flew in through the window and crashed on the basketball court...
...students hope to hold their contest sometime during the Yale weekend, when Mr. Hickman will be in Cambridge with his football team. At the moment they are searching for a local eatery which will provide a free training table...
There are five stories in Signature's fall issue, and four poems, and you can find in them some of the best writing that the magazine has yet published. In the prose, to put the poetry aside for a moment, there are good ideas, good dialogue, and good description in the better moments of the better stories. The result is readability, a fairly important aspect of fiction that has been almost totally absent from Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past. But even the very best of these stories crics out time and gain for cutting...
...sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall. So is that of Robert Newton, a sinister cockney witness to the murder, who finally gets done in with a pair of scissors...