Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint was not only against the A.N.P.A. but against advertising practices in the U.S. newspaper-and magazine-publishing industry as carried on by their trade associations. Charged Hanson: "The result [if the case is successful&#], will place the entire business of . . . advertising in printed form in a straitjacket of judicial control, policed by . . . the Government...
...dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until the line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only one bone to pick with Wechsberg's theme-other and better novelists have already picked its bones...
...three principals-Holliday, Lemmon and Carson-have spent so much of their acting careers in the straitjacket of formula farce that they wear it like high-fashion undies. Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark...
...good many attorneys, fascinated by the issue, had gathered for the hearing. Sternly, Prosecutor Rover accused Judge Youngdahl of "astounding language" in his 1953 opinion (which cautioned against requiring "conformity in thought"). "The Government is not trying to put Lattimore's mind in a straitjacket," roared Rover. "We are trying to convict him for lying under oath." Youngdahl's 1953 opinion was "a gratuitous insult to the Government," he declared. "You picked out what was favorable to the defendant and left out what was unfavorable. I want a judge with an open mind and not a judge...
...reality in a generation's time. But on the everyday level of practical politics, Europe last week was making faster progress towards it than it had in all of a year. EDC-the scheme to get the Germans into uniform on the side of the West within the straitjacket of a European Defense Community-had risen from its supposed deathbed. Büro Blank, the embryonic Defense Ministry of West Germany, casually let it be known that 105,000 volunteers are ready to don European Army uniforms; to prove that the Ruhr can arm them (a point that...