Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of thousands, the people swarmed about the President, engulfing him in seas of teeming, shouting, cheering bodies. They sang and they danced, they performed ancient and breathless feats of prowess in his honor, and they overwhelmed him with music and food and flowers. Their leaders uttered thousands of words of praise for him and his nation, told him their problems, led him to exotic rituals, to farms and fairs and shrines, swept him into ceremonials of such splendor as no Westerner before had ever experienced. It was a wonder that a man of 69, with his medical history, could...
...subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary and The Crucifixion are pictured, without breathless reverence, in a matter-of-fact manner, as contemporary political events...
...lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama Game) Haney. Latest of Playwright William Inge's lost characters, Haney's Lila Green...
...Most of you have sharp minds not connected to your eyes," said Anderson. Brandishing his stalk, he analyzed its structure with a breathless flow of higher mathematics; he tossed in rich dollops of economics, sociology and religion. "Man's history is that of maize, the great crop," said he. "In this highly patterned world, you must see more and more complex patterns." Murmured a dazzled Dutch psychologist: "A-maize...
...Your breathless account of all the high-level maneuvering at mighty G.M. to bring forth the Corvair mouse reads like a novel, but it's a lot of amiable nonsense. In this age of space miracles, why give so much importance to so small an accomplishment as moving a motor to the rear end? The day to celebrate a great achievement would be when G.M. designs a really safe...