Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for such college illiteracy, Graber firmly believes, is TV's strictly phonetic teaching. The more the student watches TV, the more he learns new words through spoken rather than written language. "Because of the slovenliness of American speech and the ease with which words can be misunderstood, he does not hear the word correctly. Since he does very little reading, he has no idea that he is using the wrong word, for he has never seen the expression in print...
...from being more primitive than its successors, Olmec art is on the whole subtler, gentler, freer and more naturalistic than they are. This naturally bothers archaeologists; it seems to go against reason. So does the presence of two distinct physical types side by side throughout Olmec art: one lean and aquiline, the other Negroid. Meyer's two ambassadors from the lost Olmec world display both types. They are not gods, apparently, but men-alert and still, and perhaps forever strange...
...plot has the out-of-sorts singer brought to his senses by a pretty Viennese Fräulein, nicely played by German Actress Johanna von Koczian, in her American screen debut. She is the only woman on the Continent whom Mario can trust to love him for love alone. Reason: she is stone deaf. That is, until she has that operation, "dangerously close to the brain." If, like Johanna, moviegoers could keep their ears closed and their eyes open, they might enjoy Salzburg, Rome, Capri and Anacapri in fetching color. And by letting Zsa Zsa be Zsa Zsa, Director Rudi...
...gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that her bridegroom is not slouching around her boudoir "for the wrong reason," Debbie decrees that there will be no beddingdown together for one month. The spurned husband takes three cold showers a day, and the newlyweds fill the frustrated hours with a colorful junket about Spain, where much of the picture was shot. As a studio pressagent describes...
Later in the Laughton version, Lear's return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened. Every gesture showed a man returning to reality, to learning, understanding, forgiveness, until he is himself forgiven...