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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles made it clear that the U.S. was deeply concerned about Soviet saber-rattling. There had been a recurring Soviet threat to Turkey since 1945, he said, but present Russian belligerence might be "a smoke screen behind which something more serious might be taking place." Whatever the case, the U.S would stand firmly with Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fair Warning | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...histrionics and general restraint belongs to director Frankenheimer. He is content to tell his story simply, without trying to make it a world-shaking catastrophe. The good taste of everybody concerned with the production is further evident in a happy use of black-and-white film and a regular screen. As a result, The Young Stranger emerges as one of the few wholly satisfactory American films in quite a long time...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Young Stranger | 10/26/1957 | See Source »

...begins at 5:45 in the morning, when the members of the Community arise. Matins, Lauds, Prime, and Preparation for Mass take place at half-past six. Priests then offer the Holy Sacrifice. The daily public Mass begins at 7:30.6The gilded wood altar screen above above is believed to have originated in the early 15th Century Venice. Members of the monastery, however, are still engaged in efforts to discover its history...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Monastery Hides Near MTA | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures won an affectionate place on the U.S. stage and screen as a Negro folk version of the Old Testament. This week, on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.), TV will catch up to it with an adaptation by Playwright Connelly himself. But in the 27 years since Green Pastures excited Broadway, public attitudes toward both religion and the Negro have changed-and so has this week's script. Many a theater lover might wistfully recall when Pastures looked greener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Pastures | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Visit with Pablo Casals. A great cellist fills the screen with the tranquil luminosity of a mature art (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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