Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the foundation of any permanent Middle East settlement? Stability-out of which Western Europe can be assured of its lifeblood oil and the Arabs of the just return from their oil resources; out of which the Arabs can derive from the U.S. such social, political, legal and economic help as they desire and as the U.S. can feasibly offer. It is now open to the U.S. to assure both the Arabs and Israelis-perhaps by presidential declaration-of sustained and continuing U.S. interest in the search for peace and the rules of order in the Middle East...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...hankering for beauties. He had married one (Mary Storer Potter) in 1831, but she died four years later while they were traveling in Holland. Only months had passed when, in Switzerland, he met statuesque Fanny Appleton. a proper Bostonian of 19 whose wealth and social position matched her looks and charm. His grief notwithstanding, the young (29) widower wasted little time. They talked and walked by the Rhine, Longfellow reading poetry aloud as he plodded along behind her. He was not yet the gentle greybeard whom every U.S. child would associate with Hiawatha and spreading chestnut trees, but Harvard...
Another economist taking part in the symposium, Nathaniel Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO, sharply attacked the president's economic policy for its "dogmatic insistence on reducing governmental economic and social activities...
...some of the picture's social commentary has palled a bit in sixteen years, it does get in some splendid and appropriate thrusts at the blessings of hymn-singing religion. Fortunately, also, the lasting success of the film rests less on its satire than on some first-rate performances and photography. Ford's cameras concentrate on the poverty and squalor of the region. But in a few shots such as one of a fence outlined against the sky, the countryside is transformed and becomes almost beautiful...