Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reams of new knowledge of outer space. Britain's top scientists called it "an amazing feat," "a most tremendous achievement." Paris' Roman Catholic daily, La Croix, echoed: "The most prodigious event in history." India's Nehru called it a "tremendous triumph of modern science," wagged: "I understand it has strayed from the straight and narrow path. Nevertheless the fact that it has been sent out is another great advance." A Soviet official in London expressed "all good wishes...
...masterpiece. Pather Panchali is perhaps the finest piece of filmed folklore since Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film played only...
Gwen Verdon plays the sexy siren, Lola, and now that she appears close up, it's easy to understand why she looked so much better from a distance in the musical. To the movie-viewer, Miss Verdon's lines are plain enough except for the aging ones, which remain well hidden until the last. And when she moves about, as she does so well, her facial makeup has a tendency to shift, giving her face an appearance not unlike that of lumpy oatmeal...
...some of your TIME-worn adjectives, it is difficult for me to understand how we Southerners can be both "rednecked" and "lily-white" at one and the same TIME...
Chief of Naval Operations ARLEIGH BURKE to the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE : My fear is that too many people in the U.S. are not willing-probably because they do not understand the problem-are not willing to stand up for principles. You let one doubtful area go, then the next area becomes a little more doubtful and you become a little weaker -a little weaker in your own spirit...