Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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F.Y.I.'s editor and its reporters stick close to two of the fundamental tenets of good journalism: facts & names. Their output is as unfettered as the title of their publication. In the process of recording the engagements, births, shifts, departures, homecomings of this naturally restless and nomadic business, and such incidental intelligence as "Marjorie, formerly known as Pease, would like to be hailed henceforth as Sparks-married last September." F.Y.I, manages to be both informative and sprightly...
Outstanding treat of the show is Susan Reed, the folk song singer of Cafe Society fame. Twanging on her lyre, she narrates the unportrayed episodes of the drama at intervals between the swiftly moving seenes. Her charms, however, prove incapable of restraining a restless audience, hastening to leave, before she concludes the show. This is bad management on the part of the producers, who should know that the average audience has got to have a shock or a thrill right up to the last second...
...candidate of the "conservative wing" of the Nacionalista Party. But Osmeña's strongest blocs of support were far from conservative. Manuel Roxas (rhymes with slow boss) wore the label of the Nacionalista's "liberal wing." But Filipino liberal elements-the National Peasant Unionists and the restless, Communist-tinged Hukbalahaps-bitterly hate...
...dissonance dated from Ingersoll's return from the Army three months ago (see BOOKS). An editorial board headed by Managing Editor John P. Lewis had been running the paper, had put it briefly in the black last year. When Lewis' restless boss came back, many of Lewis' people (including the ones he hired during the war) were the first to go. Next to go was PM's standoffish attitude toward scandal...
...openly or implicitly with the "war-climate" rather than those which treat of "strange growths." In the title piece, relaxation of wartime travel restrictions lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...