Word: mortall
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club...
...commonplaces of the 20th Century that modern artists have not met it; most of them-in their modern preoccupation with the mortal nature of man-have not even tried. Yet, as the century reached midpoint, there was evidence that here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting...
...books and studied, and soon I understood that Communism was the mortal enemy of our society, which is based first on the family community and then on the village community. I decided that Communism is a terrible thing to fight if you don't know what you want. But if you organize against Communism, it is easy to beat, because it cannot live beside truth in the hearts of the people...
Giuliano took care to see that his name did not rust. When interest in his exploits flagged, Giuliano wrote letters to Palermo editors. Once he declared war on Italy and offered to meet ten government officials, one at a time, in mortal combat. "If I lose, I lose only my life," he said. "If I win, I take over the government." Two years ago Mama Giuliano was arrested for abetting the bandits. When she was later released in a general Holy Year amnesty, her son issued a statement to the papers thanking all concerned and suggesting an armistice between himself...
...Other mortal weaknesses: some of the picture's homely details of lower middle-class life are theatrical and patronizing; William Wellman's uneven direction is inclined to be sticky; Actor Whitmore mars an otherwise good performance with a few grotesque excesses. As unmixed blessings, Next Voice offers a fine, attractive piece of well-balanced acting by Nancy Davis and the most refreshingly frank, unaffected view of pregnancy yet shown by Hollywood. Vulnerable as it is, the movie is largely successful, on its own terms: a low common denominator of emotional appeal...