Word: outwit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swimmer's itch," long thought to be caused in salt water by pollution or jellyfish stings, has been traced to the common mud snail. The snail's tiny larvae attack swimmers in calm waters and cause an itchy rash. Best way to outwit them: avoid still waters, keep splashing, take a shower afterwards...
...imagine an "individual" operating a school for crime, teaching armed robbery, assault, murder, safe-cracking; how to outwit federal agents and the like? Would such an "individual" be right in teaching these things if he thought them right? Should the police and authorities have the right to prevent this "individual" from teaching what he thinks right? Well...
...musicians play loud enough for a singer to hear them distinctly, they may find themselves playing too loud for televiewers to hear anything else. Soprano Marguerite Piazza has to go it alone in her operatic arias, trusting Music Director Charles Sanford to follow her lead. Sanford, trying to outwit ricocheting echoes, wages continuous war with tricky acoustics; he has hung the theater with painted canvas, shellacked beaverboard, velvet draperies and soundproofed scoops and baffles. TV music has become more a question of artful deception than full-bodied playing. Says Sanford: "When the score calls for an aggressive style of music...
...takes Author Mitford a lot of maneuvering to outwit Sigi's determination to have at least as many fathers as Georgie. If, in the last few rounds, the Mitford inventive power shows signs of weariness, this is no doubt due to her having fought the early ones with so much carefree audacity. The Blessing is her seventh, and best, novel (runners-up: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate), and its overall gaiety more than makes up for the fact that its British nannies, French lovers, ECA Americans, etc. are not so much fresh creations as types lifted...
Skillful editing, scoring and commentary combine to humanize the animals almost as if they sprang from the Disney drawing board, and produce an engaging little story in which Hero Beaver and his friends outwit Villain Coyote while some frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study...