Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, as you remember, discussed the state of mind of Americans in the turmoil of the Great Debate. It pointed out that our leaders are too fearful; that they plot policy as if this nation were a helpless giant. It reviewed the too many cases in which the U.S. is thinking defensively (in terms of uncrossable lines and protective loops) instead of affirmatively about its spheres of interest around the world...
Loyally responding to the challenge, one German delegate outlined the plot of a brand-new puppet play recently produced in Dresden. Its heroine, a little girl named Annamie, writes a letter to Stalin saying: "You never have any time, you poor man, to sleep at night, because you have to work for peace day & night." Touched, Stalin invites Annamie to visit him in the Kremlin...
...others: a plot (that failed) to have Brooklyn College lose to Akron (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945); a plot (that failed) to have George Washington lose to Manhattan (TIME...
...film's plot, however feeble, is enough to cramp the free-style wackiness of Martin & Lewis. In turn, their witless routines put a blight on whatever slim fun the play once offered in situations and dialogue. Between straight-man chores, Crooner Martin imitates Bing Crosby in the picture's songs, including one that gets billing as a Crosby imitation. Though he mugs, screeches, gyrates, even swishes through a female impersonation, Comedian Lewis sorely lacks one prop that has bolstered his success: a well-oiled nightclub audience...
...movie keeps fairly close to Kipling's original plot. Kim is the orphaned son of a British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh. On the other team in the Great Game are the Russians, who sneak around fomenting anti-British revolts. Kim and his buddy, Errol Flynn, manage to rack up quite a few points for our side; Kim by spying and carrying messages, and Flynn by knifing, shooting, and rolling rocks down...