Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...articles [Oct. 11 et seq.] On the anti-segregation disturbances . . .certainly must be edifying to non-American readers the world over, especially here in the Middle East, where the inhabitants' skin color is usually a shade or two darker than those lofty-browed Anglo-Saxon types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make-these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed...
...picture. But even Laughton is comparatively restrained, and his co-stars, Bernda deBanzie and John Mills, are positively sparse in their underplaying. For Hobson's choice, whose comedy is of the delicate, throw-away nature, this is the precise treatment required. Moreover, during their scenes of pointed, only a shade below cloying, sweetness, Mills and Miss deBanzie are not hampered by the audience's recollection of them mugging and taking pratfalls but a moment before...
Like Reconstruction, Harry Truman is something the Deep South never quite got over. Last week three South Carolina newspapers printed an interview with his old military aide, Harry Vaughan, which said that both Truman and Vaughan endorsed Senatorial Candidate Edgar Brown. Brown squirmed like a husband with the wrong shade of lipstick on his collar; his enemies could hardly suppress their glee...
...right-wing Republicans struck their flags and yelled to President Eisenhower for help. If his coattails pull the party through with majorities in both Houses, there is not going to be much future argument about who's in charge. After the election it will be clear that every shade and nuance of the returns will bear heavily upon future policy. Eisenhower and the 83rd Congress swung the nation off one course, started it on another. But it is by no means committed to the new direction. It can swing back, or it can fall into a two-year interlude...
Thick the close shade there...