Word: apparentement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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An Itch. Before her British debut in Manchester last week, the public was as skeptical as the musicians of the L.P.O. had been. The hall was less than half full. But at the end of the performance, most of the audience stood up to cheer. Two nights later, 6,000...
More than Stanley Kramer's other ventures into celluloid theatre, Member of the Wedding illustrates the difficulty of transferring a play from stage to film. Subservient to words on the stage, visual effects take precedence on the screen. Carson McCullers' story of a motherless adolescent who feels herself an "I...
But there was plenty of excitement in "graveyard" bond issues, i.e., defaulted bonds of satellite countries. A flurry of trading sent Polish bonds scampering from 8 to 13, the highest price since 1949. Estonian issues jumped from 11⅞ to 15, the highest they had climbed since 1947. Overnight, an...
The play is itself a blend of what writers Donald Vevan and Edmund Trzcinski call "comedy melodrama." The comic element is of an earthy, physical sort, inversely proportional to the supply of women. But it convulsed more of the audience than it embarrassed. Although not so funny as Mr. Roberts...
When they saw the new markets for power, private power companies wanted to build some "white elephants" themselves. But after the private utilities had constructed a number of dams on the Columbia's tributaries, the superiority of Government projects became apparent. Dams operated by one administration instead of a number...