Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a policy will earn few paeans of gratitude, will expose the U.S. to an incessant and painful barrage of criticism from both Europe and Afro-Asian countries. But in the long sweep of history, it may be the best hope of building a world order based on freedom and justice...
...Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie. Though obliged to make few sounds other than some grunted Japanese, aging (68) Silent...
...Eugene Ormandy, 58, and Fritz Reiner, 69, are two boys from Budapest, but musically they have never talked the same language. Ormandy's orchestral speech is as rich and gusty as Reiner's is precise and lucid; Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra is famed for its massive sweep and sumptuous sound, Reiner's Chicago Symphony for its fine articulation and meticulous attack. Last week the two Hungarians swapped podiums and gave their audiences a fascinating demonstration of how quickly a first-rate conductor can teach a first-rate orchestra to talk his own idiom...
Faith & Doubt. Everywhere the new President was beset by signs of liberty sliding out of control. The endless sweep of the frontier had recently been shut off; the trend was on to the tenement. Capital, levering itself out of the chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching...
...revolt, is briefly reunited with Renato, who becomes her lover. She tries to flee with him to America, but is arrested and shot down when she attempts to escape from a police station. "Love," concludes Composer Rossellini, "is the only thing the vortex [of modern society] can never sweep away...