Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Fool. Berg, who died at 50 in 1935, got the idea for Wozzeck in a "drama fragment" by the gifted but short-lived German playwright, Georg Büchner (1813-37). In the stormy aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and in a period of liberal revolutions, Büchner had written the tragedy of a clodlike Prussian soldier named Franz Wozzeck...
Four beer-drinking Smith girls and their Yale and Princeton dates were booked for trespassing by Northampton police in the aftermath of a boisterous box-car revel last Sunday...
...which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
During 1950 the U.S. gradually realized that ECA was both successful and inadequate. It made Europe "economically viable" but still defenseless against the Red army and its allies, the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Eisenhower's trip and its American aftermath settled U.S. acceptance of responsibility for leadership of the military defense of Europe...
...Lieut. Commander Wayne tries to sink enemy ships and salvage his duty-wrecked marriage with burning-eyed Navy Nurse Patricia Neal. Actor Wayne's flinty authority as a man of action crumbles under the trite situations and dialogue ashore. For comic relief, the picture rings in the disheveled aftermath of the enlisted men's shore leave, a scene that plays much better where it played earlier, in Broadway's Mister Roberts...