Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is all these things too-and more, and less. Like the book, it profits from Greene's instinct for weaving the fictional web, for making life look marvelously complex and always come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel...
...Eisenhower is the mystic. Dulles is the theologian. He is against the Russians because they don't believe in God." Said West German President Theodor Heuss in what was interpreted in Bonn to be a pointed criticism of Dulles' diplomacy: the West should "disentangle" itself from the "web of slogans and ideologies." And in London, when an expatriate American university professor told an audience of 2,000 British schoolchildren, "If Mr. Dulles resigned tomorrow, he would be making the greatest contribution to world peace," the schoolchildren cheered...
...within six months of publication and then drops off to virtually nothing, the successful children's book-e.g., Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1909), Marjorie Flack's China-flavored The Story About Ping (1933), E. B. White's gentle Charlotte's Web (1952)-goes right on selling a steady 10,000 to 20.000 copies a year. One of Simon & Schuster's Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy (illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren), has sold 5.000,000 copies in 15 years. Since 1942, S. & S. has sold a total of half...
...vaudeville joke In addition to being the butt of tired jokes, Newark (pop. 465.600) used to be a sprawling municipal Skid Row choking in its own web of rail lines, express high ways and traffic-snarled streets. The sun, rising above Manhattan's skyscrapers ten miles away, glinted off broken bottles in the ring of slums pressing in on Newark's business district. A daily flood of commuters poured in-doubling the population-then poured back into the suburbs. At night those who remained in the city saw the streets grow sullen and creepy...
...Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train and the River opened with the rhythm of a not-too-express train, only to jump the rails and lose itself...