Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Betty carries the show with such riotous energy and eagerness to please that she threatens to carry it too far. She plunges into her first two numbers like a bronco out of a rodeo pen, filling the screen with so much motion that it is hard to listen for the words-and impossible to ignore the singer. She lacks Ethel Merman's craftiness with comedy, but along with her unbridled vitality, she gives the role something that brassy Ethel Merman never attempted: she kindles the love story with poignancy, makes it seem something more sincere than a musicomedy plot...
Owen Lattimore was perhaps the best brain, and certainly the best pen, in a group of experts, educators and diplomats-both in & out of the State Department-who strongly influenced U.S. policy in Asia. Specifically, this group consistently opposed U.S. aid to Nationalist China and Chiang Kaishek, whom Lattimore regards as the No. 1 enemy of progress in Asia. In his twelve books (The Mongols of Manchuria, America and Asia, The Situation in Asia, etc.), Lattimore has offered the U.S. a lot of advice on how to win friends in the Far East. One of his opinions, preached steadily...
Springtime for Henry. In the spring, Koerner's work is largely worry. By summertime he has worried into existence a dozen new ideas for pictures, sets out to find landscapes and models that correspond with what he has in mind. He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year's oils, which he finishes, all more or less together, in January...
Miss Skinner, as her own author, has a talented and adroit pen. Her lines are always penetrating, and often humorous. They spring from a complete knowledge of character. In any series of sketches as ambitious as this, there can be no opportunity to build a dramatic structure of any importance. Miss Skinner completely captivated her audience, but her material, by its nature, seldom allowed her to evoke any true emotional reaction. In all probability this will be true during the rest of the week, when different dramas are presented...
...reply, the undergraduate Daily Utah Chronicle, ran a page of open letters to the Deseret News. Sample: "If some of these [Pen] writers speak unkindly of the church, could it be [because] in their youth they became sickened with an overdose of such dogmatism as the Deseret News prints with monotonous regularity...