Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon...
Like liberal Democrats, they argue that the U.S. needs more and more money spent on schools, roads and houses than the President is willing to spend. They dislike his insistence that inflation is the nation's principal hazard-not because they like inflation but because they want to talk about other things, e.g., reclamation, broader civil rights legislation, urban renewal and power development...
...watch the Christmas tree lighting, Ike had a word that he hoped would be heard across the seas: "I again give my solemn word on behalf of the American people to all the peoples of the world: that the people of the U.S. and their Government do not want war. The U.S. has pledged its national honor to work for peace. For us this pledge is no less than a sacred obligation. It is freely-but not lightly-given to the nations of the world." Then he touched a switch, and 7,000 lights spangled a 74-ft. spruce. Said...
Says German Conductor Hermann Scherchen: "I enjoy doing what other conductors don't want to do or can't do." Known to U.S. listeners-from his records only-as a master of the classical repertory, he is equally famed in Europe as the tireless proselytizer for modern music, the man who got hearings for Berg, Von Webern, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Milhaud long before their names had seeped into the record catalogues. Last week Conductor Scherchen was out plugging the work of another early comrade in music; in Frankfurt he conducted a series of packed performances of Igor Stravinsky...
...heavy toll charges Alexander Graham Bell levied for his invention was a minor art form: good letter writers have no telephone. Nor should they have much modesty. Belloc had neither. Instead he had wit and character. A grumpy, opinionated man ("I want to tell the new Pope one or two things. I hope he believes them"), he also had a well-polished ego, solid as a brass in a church floor...