Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rich Land. The people's calm acceptance of this kind of campaign, and their obvious weariness of the sound of political firebells in the night, were due in part to the country's prosperity. Despite inflation and record retail buying ($10 billion a month), U.S. citizens would put $12 billion in the bank in 1948 as compared with $8.8 billion last year, and $2.7 billion in 1939. Employment still stood at the 60 million mark. Materially, the U.S. was rich-richer than any nation had ever been in the history of the world...
...Democrats were walloped badly in 1896, however. Harvard was a place that thrived on sound money and good gold. To beat William Jennings Bryan, the sound money forces behind McKinley, the Republican, and Palmer, the Independent Democrat, joined forces in a huge intercollegiate parade in Boston. A little too much fireworks and a trifle too much gaiety brought police billies down on gold standard skulls. But this kind of showmanship won followers, and Bryan was left with only 108 supporters...
...perhaps less confusing sequence, is called "The Girl with the Pre-Fabricated Heart." ("So normal and well-rounded, but she sends her dreams to the laundry.") It has lyrics by John LaTouche, music by Paul Bowles and features the voices of Libby Holman and Josh White on the sound track. The girl in the case is that familiar type of sexual idealist who later becomes a rampant realist...
With reverence (and three keys), the scientists will open the doors. Inside, in a triple case of glass, hard rubber and wood, they will find, safe & sound, they hope, the venerated object: a softly gleaming bar of platinum-iridium. On its polished surface are two fine lines. When the bar's temperature is zero degrees centigrade, the distance between those lines is exactly one meter (39.37 inches...
...shots are as pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly put them all into one picture. That is the kind of movie Johnny Belinda...