Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Edwards does a fine job on scenery and lighting, and Alexander Mackendrick's directing seems adequate, although he must do something with the unfortunate Miss Holly and iron out the Prologue. But playwright Joseph has a lot of work...
...last revised in 1942. It is geared to the patch-and-retread psychology of the Depression and the war, takes little account of the rapid pace of technology in which a machine may be made obsolete by a better model a year after it is installed. In the iron and steel industry, the life of machinery is an average 25 years. On the straight-line basis of tax deductions applying to all pre-1954 purchased equipment, such machinery can be written off at the rate of only 4% a year. In 1954 the Treasury offered businessmen a new option increasing...
Whoever "Tertz" may be, he deals with universal human questions with an excitement that indicates that there exists in Russia today a black market in religious ideas. He raises unanswerable questions-including some that are universal and unanswered on either side of the Iron Curtain. His modest hero Rabinovich at the labor camp has dug up a dagger with a handle shaped like a crucifix. "How do you like that?" he asks. "A nice place they found for God-the handle of a deadly weapon. Are you going to deny it? God was the end and they turned him into...
...have been heavily dependent for incentive upon military competition with the Communists. The reliance upon military deterrence, far from effectively countering Communism, has turned our attention from these problems, and the vaster problems of adequate policies to deal with world conflict. Plainly, our attitude immobilizes those elements within the Iron Curtain countries which seek increased international contact and exchange and who (notably in Poland) hope for relaxation of the Cold War as the necessary condition for slow accretions to their freedom. In the same way, our preoccupation with nuclear competition with the Soviets tends to obscure our even more intractable...
...archdeacon who had earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited by a poorly trained staff of nine, seven invalids, two cows...