Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singapore (pop. 1,500,000), with a degree of organization that makes Manhattan's West Side gangdom seem puny and primitive by comparison, at least 10,000 youths are banded into 360 gangs. Members are mostly Chinese, though Malays, Sikhs, and Eurasians have lately joined. The young gangsters dress no differently from anyone else, but their shoulders or backs are tattooed with the signs of membership: a crucifix, a woman leaning against a palm tree, a kissing couple, an eagle clawing a snake. The biggest society, the "24," has 40 separate gangs; its chief rival, the "Zero Eight." numbers...
...twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul add up to a potential major-league baseball franchise, and at least two American League teams-the sixth-place Cleveland Indians and the last-place Washington Senators-seem eager to travel. With a knowing wink eastward, the Minneapolis city council one day last week voted a $9,000,000 bond issue to enlarge Metropolitan Stadium from 21,000 to 41,000 if a big-league team should homestead there. Barely an hour later, the St. Paul city council voted a bond issue to enlarge Municipal Stadium from...
...best yet released in America of fabled Sviatoslav Richter (TIME, June 16), probably the most versatile, widest-ranged pianist alive. Equaling Horowitz's technique, Rubinstein's poetry, Serkin's sensitivity, he makes even Saint Saens' Piano Concerto No. 5, on the other side, seem vivid and important...
...kind of "strict ideological defense'' is partly responsible for the low state of Italian culture; as for Effel's pictures, they are "breezy," "charming," "graceful," "creative." Said Cartoonist Effel. a militant left-winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough...
...This business of equality can be carried too far," grumbled one agitated undertaker. Commented Le Monde: "It may seem too cruel to force those in extremis who have never traveled third class or used the public transport services or had to go steerage to go to their last destination in circumstances which nothing in their lifetime has prepared them for, and to inflict on them a dying so completely contrary to their living. It would be charity to accustom them to equality at a slightly earlier date in their lives...