Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After his arrest in 1954, Chapin got a routine psychiatric examination and was adjudged sane enough to stand trial. One by one, eight Massachusetts psychiatrists pronounced him sane, although one said that the sullen young killer was in the "early stages" of schizophrenia. The defense tried to prove Chapin a victim of psychomotor epilepsy -not necessarily related to insanity...
West Germany was rearming in a mood of sullen reluctance. All over Germany, civilians were reacting to anything military with bitter hostility. Restaurants and bars posted signs: "Men in uniform not wanted." Readers canceled subscriptions to newspapers and magazines which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers...
...softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into his part, using a physical clumsiness as a counterpoise...
Must you continually bombard us with all these Italian actresses? Your July 9 issue continues to show Lollobrigida & Co. Without the names to identify, they all look alike-with their bosoms trussed high, their black eyes, sullen lips and the inevitable Italian haircut. Would certainly be most interesting to see these same Italian glamour gals by the time they arrive at the ripe age of 40. We would undoubtedly beg for the forgotten All-America girl who looks just as good...
Throughout, Bulganin sat silent. At midnight the dinner broke up, in an atmosphere of sullen ill-feeling. When someone proposed a toast to "our next meeting," Khrushchev gave him a cold stare. Later, he growled: "It is far more difficult to discuss things with you Labor leaders than with the Conservative government of this country...