Word: rather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace the present system of price supports, Rocky advocated what he called "stabilization supports," based on production costs and farmers' net income, rather than the prevailing parity concept of equalized purchasing power. But his explanation of what he meant was hazy. Two Midwestern farm experts who read the speech came to opposite conclusions. One said that Rockefeller had "turned his back on Benson." The other called Rockefeller "Benson in sheep's clothing...
...Paris, opened a courtesy call on French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville with the remark that "I have come to speak to you about this week's events," Couve put on the chill act: "I prefer myself to talk about last week and those events that have rather deteriorated relations between France...
...Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and the Times have 671,188 subscribers today, down some 40,000 since 1949. Staffers wonder, too, who will take over when Roy Roberts decides to retire. His key editors have worked long years in his shadow; behind him stands no one groomed to take his place...
...depend on a good review from Atkinson." Says Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr. (J.B.): "In terms of influence, Brooks is worth any four of the other critics." These awed testimonials go to a man who shifts uneasily beneath the burden of his influence ("Power bothers me; I'd rather not have it"), and who says he got into drama criticism for purely mercenary considerations: "I got interested in the theater mainly, I'm afraid, because you got free tickets when you wrote about...
...sentimentality, the worst of the film's offenses is its unreality. Though Kramer & Co. predict that On the Beach will act "as a deterrent to further nuclear armaments," the picture actually manages for most of its length to make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails sadly into...