Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Krock shrugged off Griswold's speech as unclear, pointedly reversed Reston-Griswold's own rhetoric to declare that "disaster can at least be invested with the virtue of awakening the sleeper to his peril." ¶When Reston said De Gaulle's ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American...
...usual, her favorite costume is the wrap-around towel that does not quite wrap around. Unhappily, the makers of this movie spend so much time exposing Brigitte that they seem to overlook the exposition of the story-which becomes especially unclear whenever Actress Bardot is on the screen. Still and all, the plot makes more sense than some of the subtitles. "Merde!" cries Brigitte, and the English translation helpfully explains: "Ouch...
...contrast to this unevenly matched couple is Sangazure and Pointdextre as played by Elizabeth Stearns and David Stone. Both are fine actors and, although Miss Stearns' diction is a trifle unclear, their singing is good enough to make their first act duet one of the highpoints of the evening...
...book is very highly respected in the field; as Professor Glueck noted, McCord has done invaluable work in defining the concept of the psychopath, a concept which was very unclear before. McCord's work with the psycopath, a person with very little conscience, is closely linked to his other major interest, that of the development of conscience. He plans to do his "magnum opus" on the latter subject within the next ten years...
...musical comedy Rumple is not really so absurd as its title would suggest. That title, it might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...