Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over after 20 years of Democratic rule, Democrats held 80% of all federal judgeships. That figure has since been whittled down to about 50%, and the Democratic Senate, fearing more attrition, has pigeonholed many Eisenhower judicial nominations (25 lay unconfirmed last week), and has refused for three years to act on an urgent Administration bill to create 45 new judges' jobs in areas where docket backlogs delay decisions by as much as 3½ years...
...Cosmo Campoli, 37, a former factory worker, sculpts creatures swollen almost out of recognition. His sculptures of women in the act of giving birth are brutally explicit; his Prodigal Son is a head bursting with dim regrets. "I want my sculpture to exist-really exist," he once wrote. "I want it to holler when it's being threatened by neutral surroundings." His wife, winsome Kathryn Carloye, does small terra-cotta bas-reliefs consisting of ranks of tiny skulls, with things growing from them. She has to keep them small, she says, because her two small children have...
G.B.S. made British General John Burgoyne an Act Ill-only character, but the moviemakers have wisely fattened up the part to the measure of Sir Laurence Olivier. As fox-sly "Gentleman Johnny," Olivier struts, smirks, sneers and, from under a preposterously foppish plume, spouts the withering witticisms that kept the original play stylish even while it was out of balance. Sample: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can be come famous without ability." And when Douglas pleads for death by firing squad rather than by hanging, Burgoyne asks: "Have you any idea of the average marks...
Typewriter Therapy. In the five years since Dienbienphu's fall, high-strung Tom Dooley gained international prominence. He was so appalled by the wretchedness of the 610,000 refugees who passed through his camp that a physician friend advised him to act out his hostilities on a typewriter. The result was Deliver Us from Evil, a 1955 bestseller...
...shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational...