Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuaded to accept a compromise from Adenauer that included neither apologies nor promises. A new Adenauer letter, addressed to "Dear Herr Erhard," was read to the full Christian Democratic parliamentary caucus: "The intention to offend you or degrade your reputation was absolutely remote to me . . . You can be sure of my full confidence in you as a politician and as a man ... I gratefully recognize the great merits of your political activities in general, and particularly in your special [economic] fields...
...Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock-a group of Anita's male partisans, who screamed, pounded on the car and tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half-dozen fans. Barefooted and almost heat-prostrated, Anita took advantage of the excitement to slump dramatically into a semicoma...
...estimate for sure the ocean's ability to absorb CO2. But man's future may depend on it. Concludes Revelle: "Man is moving and shaking the great globe itself in spite of himself. We may be disastrously changing the climate...
...worst thing about Goldwyn's Porgy, though, is its cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak...
...sure, Miss Swenson does not give us precisely the Juliet that the playwright intended: a nymphet not yet quite fourteen years old. But this is a Juliet we shall probably never see, until perhaps someone revives Shakespeare's practice of having his heroines played by young boys. Miss Swenson is, I should guess, twice Juliet's age; yet she gives us a Juliet who is clearly a teenager, and that is in itself a rare achievement. She underscores the impression with occasional youthful bits of business, such as tossing her breviary up in the air and catching it again...