Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas: "I feel I will have done all I can do creatively on the morning show. If I were to continue with it, I would be doing it just for the buck. In 22 years of broadcasting, I've never worked just for a buck." Set loose to search for a buck: 94 writers, performers and other staffmen of the morning show...
Pasternak is a poet, and it is not merely such blunt statements of opposition that make his novel stick in the Communist crop. The book attempts a subtle defense of individualism, and of the individual's search for meaning in life. While nursing wounded in a service hospital, the heroine muses: "One needs to believe in essential values, in life's force, in beauty, in truth so that they-and not human authority-may lead you up sure paths...
Since 1945, when the great offshore rush began, the oil industry has spent some $2 billion-including more than $400 million in lease payments to the U.S., Texas and Louisiana*-on the search. But it has earned back only some $400 million...
...offshore oil area," says Magnolia Petroleum Co., "may be the last big undeveloped oil province in the U.S." Yet, while the U.S. is worried about sources and has only an eleven-year supply of proven reserves, Magnolia and most of the other major producers are cutting back their offshore search. Last week only 79 seaborne rigs were poking their drill bits into the Gulf of Mexico; last August in rigs were operating off Louisiana's shores alone...
Marblehead goes to disastrous lengths to prove the point. He whips up a Hollywood-type talent search for "the typical Navyman," whom he personally selects, sight unseen, because he likes the fellow's name: Farragut Jones. It represents the finest in Navy tradition, but from the first word uttered by Boatswain's Mate Jones (Mickey Shaughnessy)-a short, unpleasant sound that is blotted from the sound track by a stentorian beep-it is apparent that he represents one of the worst mistakes a recruiting officer ever made. Lieut. Siegel (Glenn Ford), Marblehead's chief whipping...