Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make an effective short speech, briskly ticked off the awesome array of problems that bedevil France-rebellion in Algeria, strained relations with Tunisia, impending economic catastrophe, an unworkable system of government. In a burst of eloquence, he concluded: " 'Is not all this too much for us?' murmur those who. because they believe nothing can succeed, end up by wanting nothing to succeed . . . No, it is not too much for France, for this marvelous country that despite its past trials and the disorder of its affairs has in hand all the elements of an extraordinary renewal . . . The road...
That molish little man who had previously peered out from a scotch-bottle and tortoise shell opaque to murmur, "Bacchanal, simply bacchanal," was asleep in a lump on the floor, draped in the silk standard of the Dominican Republic...
...movies were successes. Alexander the Great was a flop and lost $1,000,000; so was St. Joan, which U.A. somewhat reluctantly backed because the leading lady was unknown. But U.A. has taken the big loss on St. Joan without a murmur because it feels that Producer Otto Preminger was a moneymaker before-with The Moon Is Blue-and will be again. So U.A. will back...
...British Commonwealth of Nations. But Nkrumah persisted, and last month was rewarded when his party gained a surprise majority in local elections in Kumasi, the traditional stronghold of Ashanti opposition. The chiefs' hold was broken, and Ghanaians appear to have accepted the change with no more than a murmur...
...preparing to launch a new campaign-against TV. Inspired by TV's experiments with subliminal perception, enterprising radio station KOL planned to use TV's own secret-pitch technique as its weapon. This week, behind the playing of some of its 40 hit disks, KOL will murmur some insidious suggestions: "TV is a crashing bore," "Goodness, isn't TV dull?" and "Those TV westerns are all the same." Planned but scissored at the last minute: "TV gives you eye cancer." Says a KOL executive: "These jazzy little radio subliminals may not take anybody off the TV kick...