Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At this point Khrushchev lost his aplomb, and in revealing flashes of anger exposed the harsh Communist behind the beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace...
But even in this time of relative dramatic inactivity, there were those who cried for more interest in the art of drama at Harvard--a school that had known the famous Baker 47 Workshop, which had turned out the great Eugene O'Neil, the sensitive Robert Sherwood, and a number...
In spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck...
No one character is at the center of the movie; and there is no music to help hold it together. Instead, the film's unity comes from the pattern that Eisenstein has imposed on it. The pattern is like a dialogue between the liberal Provisional Government and the revolutionary Bolsheviks...
Such a rise moreover would not have an entirely beneficial effect on the middle class pocketbook. Lower-middle class families are already resigned to making sacrifices and can also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car...