Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Young's leg infection will keep him out of today's encounter, but Coach Samborski would not commit himself as to whether he or Cabot would be at short even if he were sound. Young's injury over the past week has given Cabot a second chance to try for a regular's role, and he has looked more than adequate in the attempt...
Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...
...Marin, once a Socialist, knows now that government-spending alone will not solve Puerto Rico's problem. If the island is to build a sound economy, and to live without the crutch of federal handouts, it needs private industry and old-fashioned capitalist help. Says Muñoz: "I am out to increase production by any possible means-private, public, or mixed, as the case may be." To describe his government's part in industrial development, he coined his own neatly tailored phrase: "venture government." As Muñoz sees the problem: "Somebody's got to take...
...years gave. Muñoz a good command of English, a sound understanding of U.S. intellectual and political life, and friends in New York and Washington who were later to help him in his work for Puerto Rico. In 1926 he moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something...
What is left of the story is carried rather heavily by Shirley Temple and Tom Drake, two undergraduates busily involved with love and misunderstandings. But most of the time Director Elliott Nugent, who has a special knack for this sort of thing, keeps his lens and sound track trained on Clifton Webb. By neatly trimming the tone and pace of the film to Webb's personal high-comedy style, he has kept the Belvedere formula fresh and amusing...