Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from the animal motif, Ritchard has staged the affair with the wit of a Gilbert-and-Sullivan romp and the style of a top-drawer fancy-dress ball. Bouncing about like a tall, elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more...
...Tormé's smoky tones give a proper touch of pathos to the part of the crippled Porgy. The oily voice of Al ("Jazzbo") Collins fills in narrative gaps between tunes. This procedure dilutes some of Porgy's dramatic excitement, but musically it is an exhilarating affair...
High scorers Arnie Singal, Bob Repetto, and Jim Smith helped the team put on the pressure to increase its lead in the third quarter, and turn the game into a one-sided affair...
...debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
...meaning and direction which the theologian and artist are now sharing, instead of clearly showing these struggles in their relation to the older problems of both men, Dr. Wilder described only the conversation which these similar struggles are producing. He failed to get to the heart of the affair. It greatly disturbs me as a Protestant because I fear it is indicative of a whole tone in theological circles to be superficial when nearly everybody in the Church is questioning and searching, and at the same time wishing her leaders would say something powerful and relevant. Robert A. Thayer...