Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
Preceded by a delightful cartoon fantasy called The Peppermint Tree, The Sweet Smell of Success brings back to the Brattle good entertainment without subtitles, and the change is welcome...
According to Alice G. Pannell, President of Sweet Briar College, "the basic need for women's education in the 20th century is to realize the problems of the age of science and space." She called for American women to cooperate rather than compete with men and cited the importance of women "in reducing the manpower shortage...
...illusions of success when he arrived in Moscow wearing his fabled fur hat, and throughout his visit he was reasonable, firm and articulate. Even when Khrushchev turned from geniality to insolence, reversing what he called the Russian tradition of beginning a meal with tart foods and ending with sweet ones, Macmillan remained receptive yet firm. He had come, he said, to explain the position of the West and to learn at first hand the attitude of the Russians on the problem of Berlin and central Europe...
...Peking's planners are able to meet this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...