Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow Is Too Late (Rizzoli-Amato; Joseph Burstyn) is a delicate story of confused adolescent love and shame. When a couple of starry-eyed students (Pier Angeli and Gino Leurini) are caught in a storm in the woods and spend the night innocently in an abandoned church, a puritanical summer-camp directress brands them moral outcasts. The girl tries to drown herself, but is saved in the nick of time by the boy and two sympathetic teachers (Vittorio De Ska and American Lois Maxwell), who have been fighting for more enlightened sex education for students...
Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump...
...Conant's views are deeper still. As a general proposition, I feel that the interests of a free society are better served by diversity, competition, and private initiative than by state-controled uniformity--even when uniformity hides behind the slogans of democracy. It is amusing to imagine the storm Mr. Conant would unleash it he advocated, say, the nationalization of the steel industry. Will equal protests arise among Harvard's friends when the President questions the raise of private activity in education...
...kept to its decision, as Truman failed to do, there might well have been a speedy agreement. As it was, Truman decided to tighten up on prices in the midst of negotiations. The inevitable breakdown occurred, forcing him to seize the mills and so precipitate a political storm which now threatens the whole Defense Production...
Instead of discussing the charges against him (e.g., had he deliberately lied during his attacks on the State Department?), McCarthy quickly confused the debate with his usual oratorical dust storm. He had "no confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...