Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago the echoes of the Communist cannon that conquered Dienbienphu still rumbled over the vast rimland of non-Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...
Last week General Nasution and Premier Djuanda seemed to be intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
...whale (2 hr. 41 min.) of a story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) does a whale of a job. He shows a dazzlingly musical sense and control of the many and involving rhythms of a vast composition. He shows a rare sense of humor and a feeling for the poetry of situation; and he shows the even rarer ability to express these things, not in lines but in lives. Most important of all, he understands the real nature of the story he is telling. The film cries from the depths...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
Critics charge that the message in contemporary juveniles is one of tame social "adjustment" and of a vast, undifferentiat-ing tolerance. "Love thy neighbor." they say, has been replaced by "Love that minority." Books by the hundred set out to show that "the little Zulu or heathen Chinee is absolutely like you and me." Sociologist David Riesman analyzes Tootle as appropriate for bringing up children "in an other-directed mode of conformity": a story about a locomotive that learns to stay on the track like other docile little engines, instead of wandering happily in the fields. In Play With...