Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
Today, those three ominous weeks in May seem a world away; if they did not justify the worst of fears, it was because all Frenchmen knew that they had a man to fall back on. Charles de Gaulle, with the spontaneous support of his countrymen, has restored the supremacy of internal law and given France a new constitution that for the first time in 88 years endows the executive branch with enough authority to pursue coherent policies. He has all but destroyed the Communist Party as an active factor in French government, has laid the groundwork for a fruitful...
...second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production did he admit that the Soviet Union, producing less than half the U.S. output, was failing to catch up. But though declaring Malenkov's figure a lie (since it made his own seem less impressive), Khrushchev was almost certainly fudging his own figures. Western specialists, piecing together other evidence, suspect that Khrushchev has inflated current grain production so that party critics could not protest that his 153-million-ton goal for 1965 is "unrealistic...
...least disturbed by serialized thrillers, such as westerns, in which the ritualized ending brings back the hero reassuringly after each episode. They enjoy being scared, but become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama. Some children prefer adult crime thrillers precisely because they seem less realistic. To children, daggers and sharp instruments are more scary than guns, a real-life prizefight more upsetting than a western's barroom brawl...
Separate Tables (British). Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper sit down to eat crow, served up by Playwright Terence Rattigan in a ratty old resort hotel. The actors gnash away in splendid style, though in the end they seem to be left with nothing more than a mouthful of feathers...