Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese recognized Marshall's sincerity. In his own country and in a day of great military peril he had not hesitated to make similar sacrifices of "military efficiency" for the sake of democratic control. Not long after Pearl Harbor his staff had proposed far more rigid press controls. Marshall told them...
...innocently in a hotel room to meet her war-returning husband, the wife (Anabel Shaw) overhears a violent quarrel between two strangers. She also sees, through an open window, its brutal & bloody consequences. When the husband (Frank Latimore) finally arrives, full of love and yearning, he finds his wife rigid and popeyed from fright. Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional...
Problems. To clear the way for his enormous new crop of moderately priced houses-built to sell for a maximum of $6,000, rent for no more than $50 a month -Wyatt called for a halt to virtually all other construction. He would need rigid price controls, priorities, ceilings. And he urged passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill, which would authorize down payments of as little as 5% and allow a buyer up to 32 years to amortize his mortgage...
...characteristics of a plant or animal variety, according to old-fashioned geneticists, are passed down from generation to generation. Hybrids get their qualities from their parents, mixing them together according to a complicated and rigid set of rules. Any sudden change in a species, the geneticists call a "mutation." They do not account for it naturally, but consider it a genetic...
...Antigone" and the Tyrant"--the role of unreasoning Antigone, moved by the emotions and not by the mind. She plays it with a skill that makes the part really Antigone, not Cornell, sacrificing most of the audience appeal she could have produced with a few slips from the rigid interpretation. Codrie Hardwicke, on the other hand, has a part to be envied in Creon, although this is not to say that he fails in any way to do it justice. Horace Braham as the Chorus is worthy of mention for his fine delivery of a touchy role, as is George...