Word: neckedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southerners had adopted Buicks and bubble gum, telephones and two-pants suits, and even hired college athletes from Pittsburgh. But there was still a South the rest of the U.S. could not quite understand. That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like...
By following the difficulties encountered by the American Military government in its program of denazification, "Temper the Wind" seeks to uncover the selfish and villaninous forces at work in Germany. These groups play on the political ignorance and homesickness of the American troops to the obvious detriment of the peace...
The Gods Depart. The Man of the Year would not be found among the very great. The super-criminals and benevolent dreamers, the movers and shakers of the 1930s and of the war years had died or stepped back toward the shadows. Stalin still had more power than any man...
The people in Temper the Wind are a cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go...
Last autumn, just before he got elected Governor of Georgia for the fourth time, turkey-necked, 62-year-old Gene Talmadge was taken with a stomach hemorrhage and went to the hospital. The doctors made him eat poached eggs and he began to recover. Then he rebelled against the doctors...