Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaching the egg, and intercourse between man and woman proceeds with the knowledge of this separation between them, the human being shows himself to be not only smarter than the animals but also capable of greater ennui. Where is the love in that, and to what is the sex act reduced...
...Soviet Union last week gave an answer that was no answer at all to a strongly implied U.S. charge that Russian planes had committed an act of aerial piracy...
...they still have a long way to go. Their first act is almost a total loss, and even later on there are messy soft spots in between the bursts of hilarity. They would do well to excise entirely the pretty, insipid secretary who, it turns out at the end, is going to marry the hero after all. And they ought to write the moral issue out of the plot, because they handle it very clumsily, and because it does not belong in their play anyway. (A very wise old critic has remarked that sleazy sentimentality and pseudo-morality...
After receiving Dawson's resignation, the HYRC Planning Committee unanimously chose David F. Peterson '59 to act as interim president until a general meeting can be scheduled for the election of a new president...
Even the worst of the acting surpassed the technical end of things by a good deal. The door kept opening mysteriously, the telephone seemed to ring somewhere out in the quadrangle, brandy bottles turned out to be full of some bright crimson fluid. A bottle ran dry early in the second act, so that Kulukundis had to pour and drink from an empty glass. One would expect that in a production which began twenty-two minutes late, these things might have been set right...