Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a host of pleasant, interesting people your admirable magazine must have as readers, including more hill walkers and mountain climbers than ever I guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...
...defense position is more impressive. Under the strategic plan pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This line, the British argue, is "the only reasonably defensible terrain," can be supplied readily from Iraq, and they figure they could fly in an armored division from Libya, Jordan or Cyprus in less than three weeks after a Russian attack was launched...
...Great Mountain. To Julie, this was Joan; but to Anouilh, Joan was "the lark" -a spirit of "unbodied joy" that sings down out of unseen height upon the desperate world and lifts the human heart up to its hope. Julie set grimly to work, 15 hours a day, to reconcile these opposites in her performance. At the first run-through she had such power that a critical audience of theatrical professionals was sobbing unashamedly at the final line. At the Boston opening the critics cried "tremendous," but one of them fairly noted that she was sometimes "a little childish." Under...
Only two characters glimpse the true lovableness beneath his gruff exterior. One is a cunning mongrel dog named Pard; the other, an equally cunning gun moll named Marie (Shelley Winters). Palance finds them in a mountain hideout where he holes up to plan his' next caper -the stickup of the exclusive Tropico Hotel. Shelley keeps mooning at the snowy WarnerColor peaks of the High Sierras and speculating that it must be mighty clean up there. "Cold, too," says Jack, and goes back to laying his plans. Scripter W. R. (This Gun For Hire) Burnett still has about 30 minutes...
...1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa was a Roman Catholic and a journalist, and Mama was a Mormon, but they soon eloped...