Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea's Hill 217, time hung heavy on the hands of huge, handsome Rifleman William ("Samson") Speakman of the Black Watch. It was the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), a day on which Britons remember with firecrackers the anniversary of the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling...
...Deep Problem. What is the right answer to the seething problem of the Middle East? It is much easier to see past U.S. mistakes, sins of omission and commission, than to plot a wise and firm future course. The U.S. success in Turkey, gratifying as it is, does not give much guidance on Western policy in the Arab countries and in Iran. Turkey had passed through a drastic process of modernization which in most of the Moslem world is still to come. But the U.S. cannot wait for Kemal Atat¨urks who are not in sight...
Five TV stations promptly contracted for 13 weeks of the new package. In Hollywood, Frederic & Phillips began shooting five-minute films at the rate of four a day, with such stars as Bonita Granville and Gale Page. They hired a $500-a-week screenwriter to flesh out the plots (picked up in the free-lance market at $50 a plot). The California Bank advanced $50,000 to finance a second 13-week series and, last week, stations in Grand Rapids and Nashville signed up, bringing to 17 the number of TV stations now carrying the show. Says Frederic...
...Betrothed has been almost unknown, and for several good reasons: 1) its plot is as melodramatically involved as a Ponchielli opera, 2) it is stuffed with figures of villainy that most Americans have forgotten ever existed, and 3) it has been more traduced than translated into English. The newest English version, the work of a British writer named Archibald Colquhoun, is a happy improvement on the earlier ones, and should establish Manzoni's virtues with curious U.S. readers as well as any translation is ever likely...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...