Word: tang
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...
...observers found the court proceedings viciously slaphappy. Brigadier Lazum Tang testified that Missionary Seagrave refused to shake hands with him when government troops reoccupied Namhkam. Three Burmese nurses testified that Seagrave once referred to the government army as "a pack of dogs...
...coast-to-coast hookup last week NBC broadcast what Chaplin had heard. To most listeners, the menhaden fishermen's chants, more religious than piscatorial in flavor, had a good deal in common with the best of Negro "spirituals," but they also had a fresh, saltwater tang all their own. Sample (the Barnegat's favorite chant...
...Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermi nation in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March...