Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat John F. Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn down the Polish request. The prospect: either a comparatively modest (up to $40 million) sale of agricultural surpluses for zlotys-or, if the Administration asks for changes in the Battle Act (which bars outright aid to countries trading in war materials with Russia), a big battle in Congress...
...psycho-sclerotics everywhere, the book news of the year is that the analgesic of Norman Vincent Peale's "positive thinking" is available in a new container. In keeping with Peale's injunction to "think big, believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...
...much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play, however, is the totally unnecessary last act, which serves only to confuse the problem which the work poses...
...apply. Since his clinic holds only one more available bed, he is forced to decide between healing the artist or another doctor, who is not particularly talented but a good and dedicated man. He ultimately picks the fine man rather than fine art--but that unhappy last act reveals that his real motive seems to be only a love for the artist's wife. Just what the audience should make of that is open to some question...
...best and altogether possible thing for the HDC to do should have been to end the production with the fourth act. This act includes the death of the artist and marks the highpoint of the evening, largely due to the performance of Robert Jordan in the part of the dying Louis Dubedat. Jordan here works at the peak of his form and with his death makes the play come to life. In the earlier parts of the play, he succeeds in showing both the lack of conscience of the man as well as his strange attractiveness, but in the death...