Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your June 4 Publisher's Letter and understanding the good will and importance of William Honneus' color slides because of their accuracy, it grieves me greatly to have the vast number of your readers getting such an impression of the Maine coast as seen by William Kienbusch. I hope your paintings won't change the mind of the tourist who has been planning a Maine trip...
What of the future? "It seems to me," says Togliatti, "that the errors of Stalin will have to be corrected through vast development of re-education and a new course of life in the U.S.S.R. Methods will have to be fundamentally different from the one Stalin followed in [the later] period of his life." Outside the Soviet Union "the internal political structure of the world Communist movement has changed," and now there comes out clearly "the necessity and desire for a steadily growing autonomy of judgment...
...Searchers (C. V. Whitney; Warner) is another excursion into the patented Old West of Director John Ford. The place is Texas, three years after the Civil War, and the lone figure moving across the vast plain is none other than lean, leathery, disenchanted John Wayne, still wearing bits of his Confederate uniform, still looking for trouble. Trouble finds him. One day, while John's back is turned, Chief Scar and his wild Comanches swoop down and massacre his relatives, carrying off two young girls for their own fell purposes...
...succeeded in seizing the spirit of the New World's new worlds (opposite). In their vision of the city, they found something new to conjure with: the starry, neon-lit quality of urban America as it shows itself by night. They portrayed not actual locations so much as vast shadowlands humming with lights and movements. All three pictured truths about the American city which had never been put on canvas before...
...Question (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS) was one year old last week and still the most popular TV show in the U.S. (Its originator, Louis G. Cowan, was named vice president-Creative Services, CBS Inc.) In return for Question'?, vast audience during the year, its sponsor paid relatively little in prizes: $648,608 and ten Cadillacs. Four contestants won the jackpot of $64,000, eight won $32,000, six won $16,000, four...