Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also Rises (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox) is real Hemingway almost all the way. The characters of Hemingway's first topflight novel come truly alive in this film-often in the fine individual triumphs of some actors over their own miscasting. It is the story itself -the Lost Generation expatriates running away from themselves in Paris and Spain-that sometimes stumbles, as if Producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Director Henry King had decided that the best way to condense the novel on film would be literally to shoot the action and dialogue in well-chosen chunks. Half...
...main reasons for Houston's murderous pace, as a grand jury recently pointed out, is that "to acquire a pistol is such a simple matter that mere quarrels often become killings." For shooting a pistol in the city, Houston Press Reporter Bob Bray noted in a six-part series on the murder rate last July, the maximum fine is $200-if no one is pinked; in 36 murder cases tried this year, tolerant juries have not voted a single death sentence...
...could rationalize his own loss as advertising for the products. The sagging appliance market has tightened that credit source just when shoestring discounters need it most. For small operators, vainly trying to wrap packages, and make deliveries and give credit to today's tougher customer, the added cost often spells ruin. Says Dun & Bradstreet: "You can't sell at 5% above cost and give the services people want." For those who can expand, the potential market was never bigger. Says Sol Polk, Chicago's top discount merchandiser: "The greatest sport in the next five years will...
...eternal muddle of sin without sentimentalizing the sinner. The Just and the Unjust, the best U.S. novel ever fashioned around the law, focuses on a small-town murder trial; it illuminates both the law's technicalities and its larger meaning, its limitations and its glories (which are often the same thing). Guard of Honor, the best of U.S. World War II novels, revolves around a delicate problem in white-Negro race relations at a Florida air base; but poised on this axis is a massive, self-contained world of U.S. fighting men girding...
Anti-Sentimentalist. Cozzens himself often talks as if he did not give a damn. As an acquaintance puts it: "He is a shy, sweet man who says impermissible things." Cozzens will sneer of a friend: "Oh, he's one of those fellows that want equality for Indians." He will say on the race issue: "I like anybody if he's a nice guy, but I've never met many Negroes who were nice guys." He says what the public-relations-minded would never dare say-not only from self-confessed snobbery or in tribute to the Toryism...