Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those named by Davis, Author Granville (The Great Tradition) Hicks testified about his own disappointing romance with Communism. Said Hicks: "... I would go along with Senator Taft in feeling that I would not want to make an absolute rule . . . There are situations in which it would be better to...
As Margaret Elliott, a falling movie star, Miss Davis alternates between rational evaluations of her life and the erratic misdeeds of a psychotic. The former are to make Miss Davis appealing, the latter to provide continual opportunity for dramatics. The result is a few good scenes but a confused characterization...
The modern English ghost stories in this anthology do not have the shudder value of the old bloody-head and clinking-chain school. Instead of haunting damp Ruddigorean castles, most contemporary ghosts seem to have settled into fashionable flats, where they play hob with the call bells and the central...
New Magnitude. "From now on," said Truman, in implied admission that the U.S. has the hydrogen bomb, "man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . The war of the future would...
With that for a start, most bestselling historicals would be off on a snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation...