Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. Instinctively I have the feeling that Providence has created her either for complete successes or for exemplary misfortunes ... In short, to my mind, France cannot be France without greatness...
...Canadians: "Major recession has already set in. The bases for confidence in the immediate future are flimsy." At first reading there was indeed cause for worry. By tradition Canada follows the U.S. economy, and signs seemed to indicate that she would follow the U.S. into recession. Factories were on short time, unemployment was climbing toward a postwar peak, and the stock market was a growling bear, with prices near the lowest levels in a year...
...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...
...easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described in the fiat and dogged style of Dr. Kinsey, but without the rich subject matter. It is certainly short of Ovid. Novelist Snow's introduction suggests that he put in the erotic bits to disprove the notion that scientists are "unemotional, naive, asexual." Data inconclusive...
...taking the suggestion of allowing typing on examinations under advisement. "What the Dean means to say," his secretary points out, "is No." The New York Times Fund for the Needy announces its donation to Nathan P., who is supporting a large family. Unfortuntely the allotment falls somewhat short of the requested $85.5 million...