Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which separates Uranium 235 from natural uranium, is still going strong as in wartime. In fact, it is going stronger. The process has been improved so much that the plant's executives smile smugly about it. A new building, added to the three old ones, has a roof area as big as 16 football fields. Production, is being expanded still more at a cost of $200 million...
...drops the g's of his present participles. He is a jester, a moralist, a preacher and-even off the bench-a judge. Socially he is unpredictable. A tall story, for example, may find him just politely receptive, with a sideways turn of the head, a half-attentive smile, and a "Well, you don't say." Or it may immediately detonate an incredulous guffaw, ending with a murmured "Well, by golly! Can you beat that!" It may be pounced on frowningly and all its details subjected to legalistic analysis. It may even elicit a rebuke for exaggeration...
...collection of performances, it is a good bit above the average. Granite-faced Dana Andrews does all right when the part gives him a chance; Dorothy McGuire is quite pleasing when not embroidered with her sickly-sweet smile; Peggy Dow is handicapped by bad writing of her part, but bears up nobly; and Farley Granger gives quite a good performance as a reforming black sheep...
...gone. But the rest of the delivery is still there, as good or better than ever: the perfectly timed twitch of the brows; the play of the luminous brown eyes?now rolling with naughty thoughts, now staring through the spectacles with only half-amused contempt; the acidulous, faint smile; the touch of fuming disgust in the voice ("That's as shifty an answer as I ever heard") ; above all, the effrontery...
...year American literature marked time: U.S. authors produced little that will be read with excitement in 1961. But for the general reader, alive to his time and looking for books that reflect it, 1951 was a good year. Even the publishers cast off their long faces, and began to smile. Their break-even point on a new novel stood at around 7,000 to 10,000 copies-anything below that point usually meant red ink. But thanks to the lusty sales of nonfiction, and the royalties from reprints and other sidelines, most publishers did better than in 1950. Most...