Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman tosses aside this enormous advantage when he takes the position that the U.S. should not go after the enemy except in those geographical areas where the enemy has recently committed aggression. This gives the enemy full freedom to concentrate and then commit aggression wherever the free world is weak. Truman's principle relieves the enemy of all concern for security...
Because he is an economist, Sédillot places heavy emphasis on man's material march. He is strong on the movement of trade, sometimes weak on the movement of ideas. As a result, he seems more at home in Rome than in Greece, more understanding of the clever, quarrelsome city-states of Italy ("The word imbroglio is hers") and the colonial sweep of Spain ("Next to God came spices") than of the Middle Ages. He hastens over Plato and Aristotle in a sentence, barely nods to St. Augustine, gives no indication at all of the significance...
...Rossen's ambitious attempt to put Tom Lea's bestselling 1949 novel on the screen. Visually, the picture is thick with the hot, dusty atmosphere of the bull ring and the Mexican locale in which it nourishes. But beneath its colorful surface, the film is dramatically weak and confused...
...Agee has come close to a small triumph; he has pierced the protective shell of a boy's personality and exposed the religious exaltation of the boy without once falling into bathos. During the watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school's best athlete whisper, "Jesus that...
...Thing" lags in places but all in all it is moderately good entertainment. Do not bring small children (I heard a fellow behind me remark he was scared at one point) or those with weak constitutions. And by all means watch the skies...