Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dever (rhymes with never) made the keynote speech. It was, in its way, a classic-the kind of old-fashioned political speech, as simple as a morality play, in which the forces of good (led by Archangels Wilson, F.D.R. and Truman) meet the forces of darkness, and thwart their plot to form atomic monopolies and maltreat widows and orphans...
...Among them: the highest-ranking ex-Nazi in the Bonn Foreign Office, Herbert Blankenhorn, who now heads the political division. Said the committee: Blankenhorn had been a Nazi all right, but his party membership was purely formal and was far overshadowed by his participation in the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler...
...picture manages to capture some of Rogers' genial joshing and his common and uncommon sense on national and international affairs. (Samples: "Our foreign deals are like an open book, especially a checkbook"; "The U.S. never lost a war or won a peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin...
...majority held that only Eisenhower's kind of fight-an approach by the Republican Party to the people-could be won. Only by thwarting the will of the people in the delegate contests could Ike's bid for the nomination have been stopped. The plot and subplot meshed in the pre-convention first act, and the convention played out both without missing a line...
This cheerful excuse for a plot is taken seriously by neither Sholom Aleichem nor his characters. What matters is the vivid parade of penniless producers, starving actors, shrewd sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...