Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word has spread through the hills of Anatolia. Turks stride with new confidence along the banks of the swift Kizil Irmak. They know now that the Russians cannot win. Have not the incredible Americans trained dogs to fly airplanes...
...land (Edward Bellamy, Sir Thomas More) has often been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...Swift Show (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC Television). With Lanny Ross...
...Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater audience listened a movie audience watched. "Above all. . . I am trying to make you see," Griffith said...