Word: pallidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...
...from a Bible-thumping fundamentalist, Editor Hutchinson had no patience for the pallid, suburban moralism that he saw replacing old-fashioned evangelism in so many Protestant communities. In the pages of the Christian Century, he spoke out fearlessly as a religious and political liberal. He abhorred the "psychosis" of McCarthyism; he railed against any tendency toward clerical bureaucracy. Though Christian Century Editor Hutchinson worked tirelessly for some sort of union between the divided denominations of Protestantism, he still found time to write a spate of books (Storm over Asia, World Revolution and Religion, The New Leviathan) and contribute to other...
...triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills...
...Friend, who won 14 and lost nine for the pallid Pittsburgh Pirates, wound up with the best earned-run average (2.84) in the National League, a singular and original honor for a cellar-club pitcher...
After urging NBC to correct its faults, the committee, listed a dozen recommendations, including such pallid injunctions as correct grammar, how-to-do-it shows, hobby material, folk music and "adventure programs other than westerns and space serials-for example, exploration." NBC handed the report to its program producers, solicited their comment before checking what, if any, "constructive steps . . . can be taken...