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...earlier Democratic win, coming in 1912 with singular accuracy in the light of national totals, gave Woodrow Wilson a plurality of 735 votes over Theodore Roosevelt '80 with 475 and William Howard Taft with 365. This seeming prejudice against Democrats characterized the University returns until...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: 7,500 to Cast Mock Ballots In Crime Poll | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...mood, in movement, Giant is something the film colony often claims but seldom achieves: an epic. And this epic was achieved by an act of singular artistic courage. At the serious risk of losing the customer's interest-and with it the $5,000.000 production cost of the picture -Director Stevens slowed the pace of his story down to a deep-Texas drawl. With a more than Homeric lentor. almost as though it were inching along in one of those venerable jalopies that still wheeze across the hot pink flats between El Paso and San Antonio, the camera moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Strada is a haunting journey along little-travelled roads. Dealing with the problem of tragic loneliness and with the idea that everyone on earth has a particular place and purpose is not a new project for a film, but to illustrate his themes the director Federico Fellini has chosen singular characters in unusual places and situations...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: La Strada | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...With singular agility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PUTTING THE CASE TO NASSER | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Thank God for Truman. By the singular clarity of his political devotion, he should make us Republicans realize the perils of mealy mouthed complacency and muddleheaded vacillation. If it weren't for Bess, we would have had a fight on our hands this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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