Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glib playboy with a rusting charm (Richard Basehart) and the sententious prig with a rankling virtue (Kevin McCarthy) trade slurs-while their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn...
...rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian firmness." At the entrance to the auditorium we passed under a third scrutiny. The footfalls of armed men and the clatter of weapons made the colonnaded hall sound like a barracks...
...from contemplative solitude. Like Gift from the Sea, Please Don't Eat the Daisies offers a busy suburban wife's observations on life, but where Author Lindbergh listened for wisdom in the humming of a sea shell, Author Kerr listens for gags in the clatter of a typewriter. She has brought high spirits to her varied roles of playwright (King of Hearts), free-lance writer, TV guest, wife (of New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr). Laboring in the literary hell's kitchen of humor, Author Kerr, 33, knows that one cannot make a comic omelet...
...hard-drinking guests, smiling and shaking hands like a ward boss. Once, captured by an excited female comrade, he let himself be whirled through a few dance steps to the accompaniment of shouts of "Molodets!" (bravo). Later, somewhere in the background, half-drowned out by laughter and the clatter of dinner plates, an orchestra burst into the strains of an old song...
Robert Frost intones flippantly in his latest attempt to still the clatter of the Machine Age and to put man in his proper place. Summer Slichter, not in the realm of morality, but certainly in the musty halls of tradition, takes a well-aimed iconoclastic swing at Keynesian economics. If his argument is not convincing to the conditioned minds of the New Deal, it represents a refreshing conservatism, too seldom well expounded...