Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there should be a Hoover in every White House explains much of the virginal optimism and defunct conservatism emanating from Washington. A recession, however is not a Phoenix generating its own resurrection, and wishful thinking is often an admission that the wells of wisdom have been filled with poverty-stricken nostalgia...
...slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost...
...every woman of child-bearing age in the village, including the most repellent and chaste, turns out to be pregnant. There are, naturally, cases of attempted suicide and abortion and indignant husbands and shame-stricken spinsters. What seems to be an outbreak of mass parthenogenesis has raised problems of theological, scientific and political interest. This is nothing to what happens when the village doctor has his busy days and the little strangers prove to be stranger than is customary even in science fiction. The fathers, it is now clear, came from outer space, and left no forwarding address...
...before many hours have passed)--"I'd feel pretty bad if I didn't see so many of my friends here." Kind soft-spoken Ivy men take them aside and counsel them. Join Prospect, they gently urge (each adjusting his identical green and yellow striped tie). Join the poverty-stricken cooperative where you'll take turns waiting on your own tables and mopping the floor and be looked down upon for three years by the members of the real clubs. Join the work club, join the club for left-overs, and (ever so gently) hurry up about...
Sunrise at Campobello (by Dore Schary) extends from Aug. 10, 1921 to June 26, 1924-from the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio to the moment when he rose, at the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, to nominate Al Smith for President. The interval between represents a catastrophe in F.D.R.'s life out of which he forged a victory; it has thus all the contours of the classically beleaguered hero. In addition, Sunrise at Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning...