Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more visible than tomorrow, where millions still follow the style of dress, architecture and behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...
...week's end Staudacher, 47, had his badly damaged, 31½-ft. boat up for repairs at his woodworking shop back in Kawkawlin. Mich., where he earns a good living by turning out church furniture, enjoys a reputation as the nation's finest builder of wooden-hulled, unlimited hydroplanes. As soon as repairs are complete and the water is right (probably next spring), Staudacher will give Tempo-Alcoa an all-out try at Campbell's record, feels sure she will break it. Says he wryly: "She runs much better on water than she does on land...
...significance: a cop with a TV announcer's hairdo trying to lead a lady cashier into adultery, the problems of ambitious adolescents who want too much too soon, a priest who unknowingly gives the fighter's address to the killers. It all had the sound of wooden cymbals...
Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...
...wear no padding, kick on the run, cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect...