Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the sort of bang-up action picture that Hollywood often does well, perhaps because it has had so much experience at it. The Turning Point is a good case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...
...townspeople are mere symbols of good & evil. Nevertheless-and crude, awkward and febrile as it is-The Devil Rides Outside is kept bowling along by pure writing steam. It is often repetitive and frequently staggers to a stop, but it is saved each time by a fresh burst of vigor and intensity. At novel's end the musicologist returns to the monastery, and there is the promise that he will find God and inner peace. Author Griffin did not go back to a monastery. He chose a 40-acre farm instead. But the act of writing Devil...
...Stevenson had two major objectives-to fire Democratic enthusiasm in California and to undermine the threatening Democratic revolt in Texas. To meet this challenging assignment, the governor sat up night after night, working on his speeches until 2 or 3 in the morning. The result was speeches of a vigor and emotional appeal which Stevenson had seldom achieved before...
...kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany -drive these countries into Communist arms. He also graphically described post-Civil War conditions in Louisiana, including malaria, pellagra, and child labor. He got a rousing cheer when he finished his speech with a tribute to the vigor of French civilization-delivered .in excellent French...
Scripps, taking back his advice, said things had changed. He persuaded dynamo Howard to stay, changed the chain's name to Scripps-Howard, let him share the management with Scripps's son & heir Robert. Roy Howard brought the chain its greatest growth, prosperity and editorial vigor. He expanded the chain boldly into New York, Washington, Birmingham, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful...