Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Familiar to song and story down the ages is the wastrel scion of a fortune-making family. Minot Jelke does not quite fit the type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
...Lake City last week was restless at first. But no audience ever entered more wholeheartedly into the spirit of a production. For the spectators were mental patients, and they were watching fellow patients enact a play about something they all felt intimately -the appearance of mental illness under unbearable strain. The play: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial...
...first signs of spring began to appear across the countryside last week, a U.S. farm magazine turned young farmers' thoughts to the problems of taking a wife. In its spring issue, The Farm Quarterly (cir. 189,000) warned the young farmer to be careful to select the proper strain. Its recommendations, with some adjustments, were thought-provoking for city cousins...
...stranger hostility, but the cast and director John Sturges handle the tension of the situation with effective subtlety and restraint. Tracy, as a hard and embittered World War II cripple, conceals his own motivations from the townspeople just as they try desperately to hide their guilt from him. The strain builds up gradually to a series of explosive confrontations which equal any more violent movie in their excitement and match the rest of this picture in their plausibility...
...Britain's rearmament program of $4.3 billion a year. Eventually, the Tory projects will pay off in increased productivity. But coming on top of the nation's demand for more houses, more cars, more exports, more arms and more investments in the Commonwealth, they impose a heavy strain on an economy a fraction the size and far less flexible than that of the U.S. Result: inflation at home, waning confidence in the pound sterling abroad...