Word: palely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pale and tense to the point of tears, Mrs. Johnson rejoined: "Because there is a war on-and I pray there will come a just and lasting peace-that still does not give us a free ticket not to try to work at bettering the things in this country that we can better. Crime in the streets is one thing that we can solve. I am sorry I can't speak as well or as passionately on conditions of slums as you, because I have not lived there...
Cleverly camouflaged by Vincent Price's remarkable singing voice (which Who's Who sees fit to label "baritone"), the score to Married Alive is a tolerable item. But Jule Styne and E. Y. Harburg, who wrote it, should be capable of better. Harburg's lyrics pale beside Jamaica; for the creator of Finian's Rainbow, they are pure embarrassment. Styne's music is enough to make one suspicious of the authorship of Gypsy and Funny Girl...
Newness is not merely a matter of time but of attitude. Despite the legacy of such rare masters as D. W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein, the vast majority of films a decade ago were little more than pale reflections of the the ater or the novel. The New Cinema has developed a poetry and rhythm all its own. Traditionally, says Cahiers Editor Jean-Louis Comolli, "a film was a form of amusement - a distraction. It told a story. Today, fewer and fewer films aim to distract. They have be come not a means of escape but a means of approaching...
...young man with motley Kentucky side-burns is talking to a pale blonde boy. The side-burns belong to Dan Gordon, a 16-year-old Exeter graduate who teaches phys-ed and math at the Palfry Street School in Watertown; the blonde hair belongs to his student, one year his junior, who despised the Cambridge public schools and so came to Palfrey...
Like Any Other Shop. Distillers credit women with increased sales of vodka, rum, aperitifs, bottled cocktails and cocktail mixes. Even the trend to lighter Scotches is due partly to surveys showing that women think pale Scotch has a "nice" color. "Women walk into a liquor store today like any other shop," says Seagram's Tabbat, but they want the stores neat and convenient, and package-goods stores have spruced up as a result. Some distillers think drinking women have even increased male moderation. A man who might tipple too much alone or with other men tends to drink sensibly...