Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull world for physicists. But Dr. Gamow voices a small hope that they need not give up to boredom. Perhaps, he speculates, bigger & better telescopes "will show us sights that will cause a complete turnover of present ideas concerning the universe." Or perhaps electrons and protons will turn out to be not "elementary particles" but small, intricate worlds jam-packed with new and fascinating problems...
...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
...last years is perfunctory and its criticism of his work is so noncommittal that the reader has trouble in fathoming Author Elias' own opinion. But Dreiser's youth in the gaslit underworld of Terre Haute, his work in the rowdy newspaper and music publishing houses of the turn of the century, and above all, the gaudy entrances & exits of his extraordinary sisters, make it a kind of nonfiction Tom Jones or Moll Flanders; it evokes a period of tragicomic misunderstandings, petty thefts, solemn philosophizing and dissipated mandolin players...
Chicken Every Sunday (20th Century-Fox) might look pretty foolish if it were set in modern times, but as a turn-of-the-century fable it seems plausible enough. The hero (Dan Dailey) is a rainbow-chaser-a dreamer, a promoter, an incurable gambler. He is the type who insists on financing a hospital in a small Arizona town because his wife (Celeste Holm) is expecting her first baby, but he is also ready to gamble their home against the long chance that he will bring in a copper mine. Dailey will take a flyer on anything, but once...
Author Zilahy (rhymes with feel a knee) is the author of nine previous novels and 19 plays which have made him popular at home and in Spain and Italy as well. The Dukays is his version of the decline of the West, from the turn of the last century to World War II; it follows the decaying lives of members of an aristocratic Hungarian family. Like many ostensibly moral stories, The Dukays' chief feature is not so much its somber conclusion in the inferno as its spicy descriptions of how the characters get there...