Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bowed gracefully to its allies' views, though the expression of that satisfaction varied from spiteful to appreciative. Gloated the pro-government Frankfurter Neue Presse: "The conference turned into an uprising of the continental Europeans against ... the U.S." In more balanced appraisal, London's News Chronicle reported with quiet satisfaction that "the European tail has wagged the American dog to a new and unprecedented degree...
...people in Washington should damn well keep quiet until they have a grapefruit or at least something orbiting around up there...
...Hero? A blond bull who packs 214 Ibs. on his short-necked, 6-ft. frame, Pitt Alumnus Schmidt is a quiet, serious competitor. He works hard at keeping in shape (a habit that makes him something of an exception among the rowdy Lions), and in five years of pro ball has shown a remarkable talent for holding onto his looks. "Ever since the Philadelphia Eagles broke my nose in 1953," says Joe modestly, "I've worn a face guard. Not that I've got any beauty to lose-but why be a hero...
Under George Roy Hill's able direction, Perkins plays a smoldering, resentful, romantic teen-age Eugene with a quiet sensibility that gives his last vibrant scenes (the very last is one too many) their stunning force. Jo Van Fleet is extraordinarily good as the mother; as the father, Hugh Griffith acts with a vigor and virtuosity that match the role. The play, at its best, conveys how, for almost every true writer, youth is a bursting of bonds and a simultaneous bondage to dreams; and how, for most men, the impact of their own flesh and blood can become...
Raymond Pelegrin looks like a doctor; his smooth, professional air as the Nerac of the film's opening scenes, and his quiet dismay as he later realizes he is not a god, give a sensitive presentation of a part limited by overuse. Fernand Ledoux, as the old Dr. Delpuech, plays with age and experience in all his movements, and dies effectively, in itself something of an accomplishment...