Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alive All Your Life [March 25], I grew nauseous at first, and then alarmed to find that sales of all his books "have vaulted over the 4,000,000 mark." He is, I fear, the prophet of a new religion, the end of which is the conscious attainment of quiet desperation via self-administered brainwashings...
...took Rogosin 18 months and cost $60,000, including drinks for the cast. By the end of 1955 he had 100,000 feet of film, trenchantly photographed by Richard Bagley (The Quiet One). All this has been sensitively cut by Carl Lerner into a 65-minute movie that promises the safe delights of slumming but carries the, spectator into scenes that will sear his eyeballs like a splash of rotgut...
...M.I.T. this afternoon, Adolph Samborski's freshman team will open its season. Although Samborski has been quiet about his probable lineup, Jerry Emmet, Dave Kipp, and Renny Johnson are likely to divide the 1:30 p.m. contest on the mound. Bill Cunningham and Sham McGrady are possible alternates...
Tsuru felt he developed "quite radical views" during 1936-37. He promoted the Marxist magazine, Science in Society, and associated with many individuals who held Communistic views. Among his friends was the late E. Herbert Norman, whom he described as "a moderate, quiet academician." Norman, accused of Communism during the U.S. Senate investigation, committed suicide last week in Cairo, where he was Canadian ambassador...
...longer German." said Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque twelve years ago. "Even when I dream, it is about America." Remarque, now a U.S. citizen, may have American dreams, but his memories are still German. After several books on the Nazi-World War II era, he has now returned to the scene of his earlier. post-Versailles trips among the ruins (The Road Back, Three Comrades). The quality of the new book and of its time is simply -almost too simply-defined by its central situation: the hero works for a tombstone firm, and the girl...