Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career woman in a primarily-male field, Mrs. Gaposchkin dresses plainly and wears no make-up. Her professionalism is most evident in her ultra-efficiency, her lucid speech, and her chain-smoking. Even while she talks, she keeps a cigarette in the center of her mouth between her teeth, lighting each successive cigarette from the preceding...
...average modern academic Easterner's ultra-romanticization of the "Back to the Woods" movement, Dartmouth does not have to exaggerate the Carnival's attractiveness too greatly. It is claimed to be the "Mardi Gras of the North" and "A truly college, all college week-end--the biggest, coldest, and certainly the best-known in the world." It is certainly not the best college weekend in the country, that of the University of Colorado, for instance, being much better, but it does attract better looking women than the average Cambridge weekend...
Every year he had a new sales hit. In 1950 he mass-produced Germany's first ultra-high-frequency radios, in 1951 its first pushbutton tuning. In 1953 he startled West Germany by selling a TV set for less than 1,000 marks ($238). In 1954 he brought out the first tape recorders priced under 500 marks, sold 100,000 of them in two years. Then Grundig introduced his small, low-priced "Stenorette" tape dictating machine ($169.50 in the U.S.), sold 100,000 in 18 months...
...play, but this very fact brings in its wake a number of problems. For one thing, though the play has not been staged right here before, it has received a good many recent productions, and comparison thus becomes inevitable. For another, it has become pretty thoroughly identified with the ultra-naturalistic school of acting developed by Elia Kazan and the Actors' Studio in New York, one graduate of which is the play's original star, Marlon Brando. The reasons for this identification are more than a historical accident--Williams had the school's work in mind when he wrote...
Somehow, Dashiell Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for it, is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows; there is little romance...