Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lookingglass, carries him into an enigmatic dream world that blends myth, realistic thriller and fantasy. Laureled in Venice, praised and damned in Paris and London, it is a film to frustrate any moviegoer who demands a logical explanation of what he is looking at. For those willing to drift with Cocteau's reverie, catching what wisps of meaning they can, the movie is an interesting experience...
Course No. 6. Some of the five courses above can be partly combined and modified-and a sixth course is always possible. This is to continue the policy of drift, of blind stumbling from crisis to crisis, of leaving the initiative (the choice of time, place and weapons) always in the hands of the enemy...
...miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating, its ice is about 350 ft. thick. The surface is covered with low parallel ridges 500 ft. wide and looks rather like a gigantic ploughed field. The island may drift a mile or so a day, probably in circles...
...allegations. "At no time," Nehru said in reply, "has any foreign influence been brought to bear upon India in regard to Tibet." The Red attack against a "peaceful people," said Nehru in his best progressive school manner, had "greatly added to the tensions of the world and to the drift towards general...
Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...