Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buttons, plus controls for quality and volume. Each button fades in a different shade in the whole spectrum of laughter and applause, e.g., a male belly laugh, scattered titters, the out-of-control shrieks of women, the outburst bellowing up to thunder. The engineer plays his machine like an organ, rehearses right along with the cast, tailors the laughs snugly to the lines. He does away with the fuss and bother of a studio crowd, its distracting noises and unpredictable ways of laughing in the wrong places. "I don't work from any director's script," he says...
...Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press coverage for honest, vivid reporting...
Polish dailies have not only covered stories like Western papers; they are even beginning to look like them. Though some Warsaw papers have long carried drab, inconspicuous ads, Trybuna Ludu, the official party organ, announced last month that it would start running display ads, which are nonexistent in other satellite papers. Other Warsaw dailies scrambled to sell space, now run whole pages of bold-faced ads for free enterprisers. On one freezing day last week, a Warsaw brewery urged Zycie Warszawy readers: "If you have a cold, fix yourself a mulled beer." Urged the Polish equivalent of an Arthur Murray...
...carried a lengthy review of ex-Communist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, hailed his savage exposition of Communist terrorism as "a very thorough analysis of Stalinist methods." Other papers have run glowing stories on the "truly democratic" U.S. and Western prosperity. The Culture Ministry's official organ recently published an article on the U.S. economy by a Communist official who noted sardonically that he "prefers imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka...
...into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along the lines of the Hoover Commission on Organ ization of the Executive Branch of the Government...