Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...
When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
...music. The book concerns a dictator of a petty Latin-American state who tries to make his country a United States in miniature. All he knows about the Leviathan to the north, though, is what he has learned from reading Life magazine for 26 years. This plot twist brings in a standard repertoire of North American racketeers, movie stars...
...flash, the Hon. William Alexander Bustamante-Minister of Communications, pistol-toting boss of "Bustamante's Industrial Trade Unions," and leader of the majority Labor Party-was on his feet, his white mane bristling. "I appeal to Mr. Speaker," he roared, "for the withdrawal of the word twist. I refuse to allow anyone to make an imputation against my irreproachable character...
Morley Callaghan (class of '25) got the idea for this latest twist in university fund-raising last spring. Toronto had set itself a goal of $6,000,000 in gifts from alumni and friends, asked its most distinguished literary alumnus to write "a piece" for the campaign. Instead, Callaghan turned out The Varsity Story (Macmillan; $2.50), a rambling and nostalgic novel filled with crotchety old professors, bright young scientists and eager students...