Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With smiles, brisk handshakes and polite apologies for calling them from their homes and their hunting, Dwight Eisenhower received congressional leaders of both parties at the White House last week. His purpose was to answer yes to the question: Can the U.S. Government work constructively when one party controls the Congress and the other party has the executive...
Last week a woman, 57-year-old Ludmila Jankovcova, became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia. Brisk, businesslike Ludmila, a competent economics teacher, began political life as a Socialist and a disciple of Czechoslovakia's honored Masaryk-Benes liberalism. She won two medals for her anti-Nazi underground activity in the war, but lost her husband (the Germans shot him). She became a changed woman. When the Communists destroyed Czech democracy in 1948, Ludmila stood by without a quiver, and even helped the Communists to swallow up her own party. Oldtime friends couldn't understand the switch, but Ludmila knew...
...Brisk Gallop. What little novelty and brightness was around last week was again supplied by the dramatic shows. On CBS's Climax, William Faulkner's An Error in Chemistry journeyed to storied Yoknapatawpha County for a study of a carnival confidence man as casually evil as a rattlesnake. Edmond O'Brien played the role with a fine malevolence, although the mistake that finally trapped him was both too forced and too trifling to support an hour show. Kraft TV Theater ambitiously tried Camille on NBC and Kitty Foyle on ABC. Signe Hasso coughed and swooned appropriately...
...Robert Montgomery Presents, viewers were off on a brisk gallop with the gentry of Old England. Margaret Phillips played the haughty lady who falls in love with a young schoolteacher who knows his place but cannot keep it. There is a murder, and the young man will hang if the lady doesn't reveal that they spent the night in question together. Will she tell? Won't she? Since the story was by Britain's sardonic A. E. Coppard, the lady confesses, but the young man hangs anyway. Studio One, presenting The Deserter, had a fine opening...
...fantastic series of double-crosses, mistaken identities, and political intrigues, leaving the audience confused as to who's on whose side. Occasionally, there is even doubt as to who's in whose clothes. No one really cares, though, because even in its most hackneyed scenes the movie is brisk and entertaining enough to render all questions of credibility irrelevant...