Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's Racist Senator Herman Talmadge theorized that the bombing might be a plot of Communists, but Atlanta's 68-year-old Mayor William B. Hartsfield did not need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish...
...colonists are joined by a group of visitors no less strange: a Byronic Oxford lad, a hopeless lush, a flighty wife named Dora, and her Prussianesque art-scholar husband. In a series of plot maneuvers as complicated as a gavotte, Author Murdoch sees to it that the insiders and the outsiders mix, mate and mangle each other. A lengthy subplot centers on the discovery and raising of the ancient abbey bell, legendarily consigned to the bottom of the lake as a result of a curse on an errant nun. The bell, of course, is a symbol for that clear-ringing...
Master Perkins, whose service to mankind in the pronouncement of truths has been awesome indeed, has perhaps even exceeded himself with the assertion that these low fellows are engaged in a plot that "strikes at the roots of the House system." And Master Finley, whose record in the field of verities also cannot be underestimated, has observed with his usual good humor that "one student told me he had a little more privacy but a lot less hot water...
...principal diversion from the plot of Mann's novel occurs in the movie's unsatisfactory conclusion. Mann intended to write another novel about the further adventures of Krull, but he did give his novel an hilarious and epiphanal conclusion with Felix's seduction of the mother of one of his lady friends. The film does include this appealing scene, but induces too much complexity into the ending, as well as an implausible love into the hero...
...savings bonds. G.E. computed that a worker making $5,000 per year would have as much as $5,281 worth of bonds in his savings fund after ten years. The plan got nowhere with high-voltage Jim Carey, who last January called the recession an obvious union-busting plot. He charged that the plan is a scheme to drive up the price of G.E. stock, enriching top executives who "have secured stock free of charge as part of their profit sharing." Said G.E. Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware: "Carey is unable to distinguish between bargaining and giving in. Three years...