Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their anxiety for acceptance, says Escoulin, the Roman Catholics latched onto U.S. values, prejudices and habits too enthusiastically. He quotes one unnamed Protestant as complaining that far from being unAmerican, the Catholic Church is too American...
Dear Lady: Having attained an age when the comforts of home and a warm cheerful hearth have more of an attraction for me than chewing the fat with a bunch of laid-by sourdoughs, I have read everything in TIME including the list of editors, where I ran onto your name. At the risk of being a bit impertinent, is that your name or just your business name? My father's people came from New England . . . and your name recalled pictures of homes there belonging to my ancestors. It kind of animated old memories...
...drizzly afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...
...years of life in the back streets, still ranked in popularity with curling and hurling when it went on TV in 1947. Since then it has played to sellout audiences, 90% of whom first saw it over TV. Wrestling, too, had a sweaty, dying pallor until it was hurried onto TV as an inexpensive fillin. So astounding was its success that when Promoter Ned Irish put a wrestling match into Madison Square Garden last month, he grossed over $50,000-$10,000 more than any boxing card had drawn all season. Said Irish: "At least 40% of the customers were...
...simple dramatic material. Although it contains some of Shakespeare's finest lines, the play is talky and often lacking in action; a good deal of judicious cutting was necessary. (The new production has been cut even further.) A second difficulty is that the story of Troilus and Cressida, grafted onto the traditional Homeric legend, makes the plot disjointed and confused. The ending is inconclusive, and there seem to be no outstanding characters. It is a tribute to Peter Temple's direction and to the talents of the east that the Brattle Theater succeeded in making the play an effective drama...