Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less happily, what is best in all this has been pretty fully conveyed by the end of a brilliant, dynamic first act. Indeed, the first act's very power of assault gives to what follows a diminished impact. But what follows has also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having...
...Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin to her throne of glory beside Christ, surrounded by angels...
TRADING-STAMP COMPANIES won vital battle against anti-stamp merchants, who charged that stamps jack up prices, squeeze out non-stamp stores. FTC ruled that stamps do not create "unfair competition or deceptive practices," but promised to act against any company that uses stamps for "deception of customers, price discrimination...
...there, and it cannot be brought to trial unless it agrees to go voluntarily. It could refuse the court's jurisdiction on the ground that General Aniline is a domestic issue; General Aniline is a U.S.-based firm that was confiscated under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. And the court itself may refuse to referee the fight because the General Aniline seizure took place four years before the court was created...
...matter of fact, Kathleen Winsor need never have written another line, but she seems to suffer from a continuing compulsion to act like an author. After Amber, she took a whack at fictionalized autobiography (Star Money) and fantasy (The Lovers), and flubbed both. Her latest offering, a raffish account of a smalltown childhood, sounds like a Booth Tarkington novel as retold by Erskine Caldwell. In the Winsor world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look...