Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this disorganization, the races were run off late. A further annoyance to the competing crews was the fact that, despite warnings from the Navy, motor boats kept racing across the course, kicking up wakes which bounced back from the seawall at Hains Point and stirred up the usually placid waters just as the crews came past. As one observer on the judges' barge put it, "The only way you can tell a race has begun is when you see a yacht revving up in the middle of the course...
Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
MacLeish was right. Though almost plotless and seldom dramatic, Stephania is a mature study of life in a hospital for the handicapped. Stephania, her body tortured by the Nazis and her mind churning with memories of horror, upsets the placid routine of the two other patients in Room No. 5. Desperately intent on having her crippled body reshaped, she has neither understanding nor sympathy for the resignation of the paralyticThura or the gross self-indulgence of Fröken Nilsson, who has overeaten to the point where her broken leg cannot support her porcine body...
Pregnancy Preferred. The problems that beset the missions, Dr. Van Dusen found, are both old & new. The old problem of teaching sexual morality is still bafflingly difficult-especially in Africa, with its tradition of multiple marriage and its placid view of premarital and extramarital sexual relations. "One of our finest missionary nurses told me," he wrote back to friends, "that her African student nurses welcome pregnancy since it makes them more readily marriageable . . . The Paris Mission has projected a large boarding school to take little girls between six and eight years of age and keep them without ever letting them...
...force by an actress twice the age of the character she's portraying. Triumphing over the stereotype of the colored Earth Mother, Miss Waters is a Mammy with more than a hospitable lap. Her portrait of the cook, Bernice, is a rich, full personality with the compassion and placid wisdom of experience. These two performers make the film a moving drama. But at the same time, Member of the Wedding shows clearly that for all the versatility of the camera, something is lost when a screen-play is simply a play on the screen...