Word: utters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest dose of poison, according to the Post, is embodied in the "myth of the Terrified Liberal," the message of which is that McCarthy has so terrified the intelligentsia--federal jobholders, scientists, writers, and professors--that they dare not utter a word...
...Basically, he tells the story of simple Ozark people whose lives are complicated only by their natural, spontaneous emotions. It seems a mistake to attempt to make these people highly sensitive, profoundly thinking creatures, who are constantly searching for the answers to life. Greendale only succeeds in making them utter platitudes...
...like "the Crock," are particularly good. But Michael Red-grave in the leading role is the star in every way. His portrayal of a man who has turned all his frustrations against himself to satisfy his wife's characterization of him and has sought refuge in the most utter degradation of his spirit is truly exciting, Jean Kent, as his wife, has a much less difficult part to play, and one in which she is quite adequate...
...selection was admirable, being culled from the sixteen adaptations of his work which Dickens used himself on his tours. It included humor and tragedy, complete stories and incidents, utter-affectation and sincere emotion. No less varied was the reader's enunciation. He varied his tone, not in an offensively obvious manner, but in a subtle way which dispersed all tedium from the more than two hours of essentially similar narrative...
...higher, convert him into superman. Shaw's Heaven, far from being a blissful goal, would seem a mere way station on the road to perfection-as his Life Force, magnificent so long as it is an evolutionary process, would seem to end as pure intelligence functioning in an utter void...