Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer turned his narrow back on the world, to spend his remaining 26 years alone in a storm-racked house on the Maine coast. "The Sun will not rise, or set," he wrote contentedly to a friend, "without my notice, and thanks." His thanks were fathoms-deep seascapes and the flashing watercolors-mostly painted on hunting trips into the north woods and winter excursions to the Bahamas-on which his fame now rests...
What had happened to cause such a storm? Had it been inspired? Harry Tru- man's nomination of Lilienthal last fall had caused no tremor...
...suggest an attitude of plague-on-your-house in the case of the present crisis. The peace of Europe is too much intertwined with the productive capacity of the British Isles for Americans to be unconcerned when this industrial potential fritters away in the face of a winter storm. If the British cannot maintain their internal living-standard, British commitments everywhere must be sealed down proportionately, and the resulting vacuum must be filled according to the power line-up of 1947, with American troops and equipment. The withdrawal of British forces from Palestine and Greece would not bring British prestige...
...pleasant concoction of witty comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...
...idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...