Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clumsily denied and then admitted. And in crucial Sedgwick County, the local Democrats are in bad repute (Wichita, pop. 260,000) over recent scandals, e.g., the pending disbarment action against a common-pleas judge charged with having advised members of a burglary ring. Docking, 54, once regarded as a sure thing in his bid for an unprecedented Democratic second term, is headed for trouble...
Kilb's defenders were quick with an explanation: the company had insisted on loaning Kilb the cars to make sure that he would not inconvenience Adenauer by arriving late at top-level government appointments. The fact that Kilb might be in a position to influence the Bonn government's plans for restricting the size of trailer trucks-a subject of considerable interest to Daimler-Benz, as one of West Germany's major manufacturers of trucks-had nothing to do with the case, they said...
...dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught us not to confuse the two of them. These efforts at psycho-mythical interpretation often contain real insights; what is lacking is reticence. Occasionally...
...situation may be unlikely penology and ponderous allegory, but it is dramatic as can be, and could have made for a memorable film. But our old friend Stanley Kramer got hold of this and decided to hit the great American public between the eyes. He made sure that every scene was underlined as firmly as possible. He managed, perhaps with difficulty, to secure Tony Curtis for the lead. While he did not spoil The Defiant Ones, he cheapened...
...lady sits in a doorway of Vermeer's "Street in Delft," thinking of the quiet and the secure things she knows about her faded old home. The poem is the woman talking, and yet it is not the woman talking because her thought seems to transcend her feeling. Be sure to hunt up the print in the library if you like the poem...