Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flickering klieg lights lit the sky on one spot along an East-West Berlin frontier one night last week. American Movie Director Victor Vicas was shooting a film called No Way Back. The plot: boy soldier in the Soviet zone meets German girl, boy loves girl, boy and girl flee to freedom in the West. Cameras whirred, the "Red" leading man escaped the Vopo extras amidst a spatter of fake bullets, someone yelled "Cut!" and the director got ready for the next scene...
President Reed is the nation's top biostatistician (a word he coined himself). Over the years, he has collected statistics on everything from cows to cars, once helped to plot a logistic curve by which scientists can forecast population trends of any city or country in the world. As director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and later as vice president, Reed also proved himself a topnotch administrator. Johns Hopkins now has until 1956 to finish its $5,000,000 building program, and to run along under a man it knows and respects. By then Reed will...
...rain that lashed the green Ruhr Valley, one sleek Mercedes after another swung off the highway and pulled up in the courtyard of a big white farmhouse. Well-fed, important-looking Germans hurried inside. A movie-fan would have guessed that some plot was afoot...
Offhand, this novel has what seems a pretty used-up plot, the story of a tarnished Cinderella. Senorita Amparo Emperador was very beautiful, very poor, and an orphan, without beaux or hope of dowry. In Madrid, in 1867, that was about as bad a fix as a girl could find herself in. So Amparo had become a slavey for her distant, stingy relatives, Rosalia and Francisco Bringas, who kept her jumping from dawn to dusk and repaid her with spoiled food and a few rare pesetas...
Universal Amparo. There are two reasons why Torment, with its routine plot and its 19th century setting, is first-rate literary news in 1953: 1) it is told with much of the eloquence and appetite for life that are the trademarks of the great men of the novel-Dickens, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Fielding; and 2) it is virtually the first chance since the turn of the century that U.S. readers have had to meet Benito Pérez Galdós, one of Spain's finest writers (The Spendthrifts sold 400 copies in this country). Like his mighty peers...