Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking...
...Beneath Greasy's casual air, his sharp wit and his superstitions (he insists on being last to leave the dining room when his men are eating, last to leave the clubhouse, last out of the bus), lies a vast store of football know-how. He knew the kind of T-football he wanted: a combination of great power and flawless execution. In nine seasons with the Eagles, that is the kind he has developed-the prettiest and most deadly T-formation in the business...
...gesso panels, Cadmus builds his pictures up with thousands of tiny brush strokes, finds time to complete only three or four a year. He had interspersed his Sins with cleverly composed little pictures of ballet dancers practicing and handsome boys having fun on beaches. There was also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin was storytelling art, as carefully staged and realistically painted as a Satevepost cover. What saved...
...Blunt Fact. The Catholics of England and Wales (2,528,200 in a population of 43,534,000) are organizing their forces to make each candidate in next spring's General Election publicly commit himself for or against their plan. Last week the Labor government made it a sharp issue: Minister of Education George Tomlinson.flatly, rejected the bishops' proposal, and issued a memorandum to Labor Party members explaining why. Questioning the accuracy of the bishops' ?60 million estimate of the Act's cost to Catholics, the memorandum asserted: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy have always aimed...
...Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists-mother & son. Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness. Bowles may have missed the center of the target with his central characters, but he has given them a supporting cast and an exciting setting that a good many more practiced novelists can honestly envy...