Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic accusations that the Republican Party favors big business are as bad as Republican accusations that the Democratic Party is "soft on communism," Representative Laurence Curtis told the Harvard Eisenhower Club last night...
...hand pressed flat and white against the black skirt, the other holding the script before her, she read the Queen's description of Ophelia's drowning in a soft, haunting voice. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook...
...months, soft-spoken Record-Spinner Shepherd fired off occasional jazz salvos 4½ hours a night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
While Pirogov and most of the others are loudly verbalizing their predicaments or laying cluttered schemes, I. Koslovsky, as the fool, offers the film's most subtle performance. He appears just twice--first to accuse Boris in a soft, demented idiot's song and then at the end to lament Russia's unrule. Boris Godunov has come and gone, Dmitri has left the land in flames and he, too, will soon be murdered; nothing has changed...
...brood, like the old, wonders who is ahead in the walking. In December 1946 the Rockefeller brothers thought about donating the 3,000-acre family estate near Tarrytown, N.Y. for the site of the permanent headquarters of the U.N. Nelson got on the phone to J.D.R. Jr. The soft-voiced questions came crowding in. "Is this what the United Nations prefers? Is this the ideal location?" "No." "What is?" "New York City, of course." Then Nelson mentioned a possible $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 property beside Manhattan's East River. J.D.R. Jr. asked: "Why shouldn...