Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington kept its fingers crossed. The U.S., still getting used to the shock of being at war, held its hope in check, like a wish that might be lost if it were spoken aloud. But all eyes were on the summer and the new hope: the nation would at least...
...shaping the everyday word into a biting, meaningful symbol, and the use of sharp contrast adds force to this verse. If his meter seems colorless, it must be remembered that many of these poems were designed for the use of creative dance groups and thus gain force if read aloud. One may hope that in the future Mr. Brinnin's metrical talent will develop alongside his gift for the phrase, and that the phrases themselves may be tempered to yield a more than technical unity; meanwhile "The Garden Is Political" may stand on its own feet...
Part of the blame lies in the production's slow-footed pace, heavy-handed direction, weak acting. But part of the trouble is the play itself. The dialogue, more like subdued rhetoric than human talk, often seems stilted and formal when spoken aloud. The play lacks sustained action and commits the dramatic crime of having almost everything exciting take place offstage. Finally, though the townspeople's heroic resolution is made clear, their flesh-&-blood sufferings...
...world had learned of his arrival in Australia. From sick Allied hearts, a wave of hope rose. The wave became a flood, a kind of prayerful madness. Army censors in Australia, before announcement of his presence was permitted, admonished those in the know not to speak the name MacArthur aloud, to say he if they must refer to him. Statesmen, the press, plain men everywhere cried that MacArthur would put an end to retreats; MacArthur would take the offensive; MacArthur was the man who could...
...gave OCDirector James M. Landis a fine lump on the head, by reading aloud a passage from an OCD order calling for the blackout of Government buildings: "Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal buildings and nonFederal buildings occupied by the Federal Government during an air-raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination. Such obscuration may be obtained either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination...