Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Dulles-Chiang talks on fundamental matters emerged a fundamental result that made Dulles' trip to Formosa a diplomatic achievement of a sort. One nagging hindrance to the Administration's Far Eastern policy is the impression, widespread among the free world's leaders and opinion-shapers, that Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek is fanatically bent on invading the mainland at whatever cost, even nuclear world war. In an effort to correct that impression, Dulles got from Chiang a formal declaration renouncing force as the "principal means" of liberating the mainland Chinese...
...Open Cathedral. The phrases he used when describing the rebels were the sort that no Premier before him had dared to utter. Most of them, he said, had fought "courageously," and he offered them "the peace of the brave" (see box). But he was only willing to discuss a cease-fire with the F.L.N., not to meet their demands for independence. Only by peaceful evolution could the "courageous personality of Algeria" come to exist...
Admirers of Mr. Rodgers will be glad to know that he is writing almost exactly the same sort of music today as he was fifteen years ago. The only difference is that his songs, always easy to remember, are now also easy to forget...
...duration (18 minutes) and sentimental excruciation has scarcely been equaled since Sonny Boy kicked the bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Producers. Most of them "became bosses because they were serious-looking fellows. They knew nothing but could talk fast." Cecil B. DeMille "has been sort of a one-man dark ages that has reigned in Hollywood for 30 or 40 years. He learned the trick of making movies about horses, for horses, and he got terribly wealthy." But Sam Goldwyn is "a higher-class fellow. A fine producer, he has no head . . . He has a very intellectual stomach. It would react at a distance of 50 pages. If you were reading a script and it had a wrong passage...