Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Brussels, cultivating the philosophy that sprouts under his bowler. "Most people," he explains, "act unconsciously, thinking they know their goal. As for me, I'm consciously searching for the unknown." Four mornings a week Magritte stays home in his stuffy little apartment to paint. His technique is straightforward and exquisite; his results are oblique, funny, and sometimes forceful. Like Roman candles fired into the dark, his paintings are meant not to illuminate but to enhance the mystery of life...
...with a South Korean newspaperman who had planned originally to defect to the Communists, but who at the last minute had changed his mind. Critical of Rhee, protesting that the old man's stubbornness has cost his nation dearly, he, nevertheless, is a staunch Rhee supporter on the straightforward ground that Rhee is the strongest political force in Korea today...
...Confess (Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock whodunit with an intriguing premise: a Canadian priest (Montgomery Clift) is accused of murder, but cannot reveal the identity of the real killer because his lips are sealed by the confessional. The picture develops its theme in straightforward fashion with few surprises and plot twists. Since the audience knows from the beginning who the killer is, his undoing comes about in a rather lame climax...
...picture has good, straightforward, and above all, spontaneous dialogue. Unlike many prison pictures with cruel guards and an innocent prisoner, Hellgate does not try to make the prisoners seem long suffering, bean geste heroes...
...looking over the fence, it is gratifying to see the presidential campaign resolving itself into an increasingly clearer contest of straightforward honesty versus old-line, conventionally tainted politics. The attempt to smear the Republican second-in-command appears to have backfired admirably on the Democratic first-in-command...