Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Torrent or Ordeal. French critics took Journey to task for its faithfulness to the stage version, complaining that the film was a "slavishly unimaginative transposition of theater to screen." To foreigners, the torrential flow of talk, which O'Neill uses to bludgeon home his message, seemed merely an ordeal. Lumet replied: "I believe there is room for literature on the screen." But the format seemed to have inspired Journey's stars. Last week's Cannes Festival jury awarded a collective top-acting prize to Journey's four stars-though they had to share their honors with...
...deck were marked in white paint, to be appropriately preserved later on just as the touchdown spot of the Spirit of St. Louis was marked at Paris' Le Bourget Field. Glenn accepted his apotheosis as coolly as he had handled Friendship 7 on its flight through space. In the torrent of questions, he was articulate and at ease. There was honest pride in his great achievement, but Glenn went out of his way to acknowledge the roles of hundreds of others who stood behind him. "We," a word reminiscent of the other lean young colonel of 1927, was always...
Menon tirelessly preaches "self-determination," but the question of a plebiscite for the Moslem Indian province of Kashmir, which is also claimed by Pakistan, brings forth a torrent of words about India's historic rights.* He has a remarkable explanation of why the Russian satellites are not colonies: "A colony by definition is a territory which is not a member of the U.N.," he says. "You can't call the satellites colonies, because they were all admitted to the U.N. by a unanimous vote. There may be oppression there, there may be any vice you can think...
...apiece instead of the then standard 29?. Today, the boss of a 584-man concern that grosses more than $30 million a year, the little baker is so busy selling his high-priced goods that he is currently equipping his major food brokers with computers to process an endless torrent of orders from customers across the nation-including the once skeptical supermarket chain...
...could house one million people-20% of the city's population. (Leningrad has about eight miles of subway, and the first stage of the Kiev subway has six miles of track.) But mostly, Gouré's evidence for a thoroughly planned Russian civil defense effort is the torrent of pamphlets, charts and decrees issued to the public through DOSAAF (All-Union Voluntary Society for the Promotion of the Army, Aviation and Navy), a 22 million-member organization that also gives training in shooting, parachute jumping and other paramilitary sports...