Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collective weakness of the supporting east was obvious in the final act, which contains the longest and most important section of the play from which Lear is absent. The main purpose of the act in the build up a feeling that there has been enough suffering, so that the later hanging of Cordelia and the expiration of Lear will have a more powerful tragic effect. The actors fail to build up this feeling of satiety, so that Lear's entrance, bearing Cordelia, does not have the powerful impact is should have, until Devlin rebuilds the structure himself...
...Waddling out of a meeting of the Rules Committee next day, Ohio's portly Republican Clarence Brown cheerfully admitted that he had voted with committee Dixiecrats to keep the bill from reaching the floor. Not that he was against FEPC, of course, he just wanted to give two absent Republican committeemen a chance to vote on it. Also, "I wanted to protect the Speaker," he added piously...
...verse. Yet it has the character of a psychological study, of drawing-room comedy, of domestic drama. It begins significantly with a cocktail party, emblem of all that is frivolous, ephemeral and heterogeneous in modern life. Characteristically, one guest is a stranger even to the host. The hostess is absent-called, her husband explains, to the sickbed of an aunt...
...Absent Critic. It was not an impressive effort, but Infantryman Bradley had to carry the argument alone. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, the Administration's most severe critic of State's lethargy in China, was off vacationing at the time of decision. It was Johnson who was partly responsible for needling the President into action, who had privately boasted: "I'll keep asking what our policy on China is until I find out." Yet, when the time for battle came, Louis Johnson was away: he had been traced to the swank Jupiter Island Club at Hobe Sound...
...under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers thought that the likeliest purge candidates for 1950 were Rumania's Ana Pauker (who was conspicuously absent from the last Cominform conclave), Czechoslovakia's President Klement Gottwald and Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis...