Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your TV reviewer of For Whom the Bell Tolls [March 23]. Bravo to John Frankenheimer for preserving the craftsmanship of Ernest Hemingway, whose use of the spoken word conveys both a poetic simplicity of character and a depth of emotion...
...words of the Committee on the Visual Arts, "Less and less is modern man swayed by the argument of the written word, and more and more by the photograph, the bill-board, the cinema, the picture magazine, and now television. Until both sender and receiver of these visual messages are trained in the twin arts of perception and discrimination, the educated man may hardly claim to be the master of his own environment...
...almost bitter taste. The cheerful performance of Stephen Wailes as the Prince prevents any such thing from happening at Adams House, and so draws the teeth of the play and injures its continuity. The hypocrisy with which he pretends to pretend to insult Falstaff, while actually meaning every word, is completely soft-pedaled, and the play's most multi-edged ironies go with it. Affairs are considerably heartier on that account, but there is nothing self-compensating in the insipidity and lack of eloquence in Mr. Wailes' later scenes...
...belief that the Democratic Party does not need the South to win the election prevails, and Mr. Butler keeps his word, the South will be placed in a difficult position. They will either have to swallow the strong Civil Rights plank or form a third party--and the independent movement is highly risky for the South...
...organized a volunteer fire department and raced through town on joy rides whether or not there was a fire and whether or not the townsfolk wanted them to extinguish it. The students were justified in their stimulation, though: restrictions that held them in the Yard were lifted whenever the word "Fire!" was heard. One historian claims that the young men also looked forward after fire-fighting to relieving their parched throats with firewater at the local...