Word: overlong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clicking like a Geiger counter from his own political H-bomb test, toughened by 2½ months of speeches, missed meals and one-night stands, striking out on his own after listening overlong to his managers, harried but gentle, angry but optimistic, Adlai Stevenson plunged last week into the homestretch of the 1956 campaign...
Though economists are chiefly concerned by pyramiding personal debt and such installment loan abuses as no-down-payment deals and overlong terms, the installment buyer is not yet being pinched, will be the last to feel it. Bankers welcome installment loans not only because they are quickly repaid (average loan duration: two years) but also because few customers resist high interest rates (top effective rate* at New York banks: 11.7%). The installment buyer is usually not concerned with interest rates; all he wants to know is the size of his monthly payment and whether he can carry it. Household Finance...
...moving from the stage to TV, Borge's show suffered a loss of the intimacy that the unmelancholy Dane's comic style demands. The hilarious mood of Comedy in Music was also seriously damaged by an overlong potpourri of Tchaikovsky melodies, played by a full orchestra and conducted by a Borge suddenly turned serious maestro. But despite everything, his comic talents survived the screen, and he got his deserved laughs as he coughed his way through Debussy's Claire de Lune, tangoed his way through Jealousy while sitting at the piano, doublecrossed the studio audience by playing...
...love story, and beyond that, a girl's quest for her own identity. The Caine was a clear-eyed account of life aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in World War II; Marjorie is a clear-eyed and warmhearted account of Jewish family life in the 19303. Marjorie is overlong, sometimes graceless, often plodding, but like The Caine, it has a compelling sense of reality, as if the novelist had planted hidden microphones in the house next door and poked a zoomar lens down the chimney...
...Both banks and big finance companies such as General Motors Acceptance Corp. and C.I.T. have extended their terms from 24 to 30 months, and in some cases even to 36 months. So far, repossessions have stayed close to the low, prewar level, but few thoughtful businessmen like the overlong new terms...