Word: strength
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson's thesis in the end, as in Tea and Sympathy, is that in sleeping together there is strength. The two part in the morning with renewed hope...
...actually heightens the underlying continuity of emotion. Morris Carnovsky plays to perfection the role of a father who can't see why his son should want to go to a gentile school instead of following his tracks into the business. But his wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that of his wife, whose part is a bit overplayed by Sarah Cunningham. Carnovsky's magnificent outbursts take on meaning from his more frequent displays of quiet resignation before wife's and fate's hand...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
...long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite, it proved to be five times as strong as ordinary graphite, keeps its strength at temperatures up to 6,700° F., also has the extraordinary property of conducting heat 100 times better along its main surfaces than perpendicular to them...
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near...