Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reconciliation. No longer do Americans in India find themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...
...reality collides with another: Atlanta may face an even worse segregation crisis than Little Rock's. Under Georgia law, integration in a single school automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta alone. But Georgia's back-country state legislators, who regard Atlanta as a big-city Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor...
...interview with Mrs. Rommel and her son Manfred, the Rommels were at a disadvantage. They did not know that I had the late field marshal's own headquarters war diaries, or that I had learned about his present to his wife. So when the interviewing began, it was obvious from their answers that I would not get the real story without my revealing facts I had read in the war diaries. They were nervous and reticent...
...episodes--each one ending with a fade-out that lingers too long on a symbol. This effort at realistic symbolism fails because it is not consistent throughout the film. As soon as the viewer realizes that there will only be a symbol before every fade-out the imagery becomes obvious and uninteresting. The direction lacks subtlety and the camera work is fairly pedestrian...