Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa did his personal bit to uphold his union's reputation last week as he barked through an eight-hour sitting before Arkansas' John McClellan's labor rackets committee, chewed out a torrent of words that filled almost 400 pages of transcript. When he was finally excused. Boss Hoffa walked out of the hearings no more damaged-and not a whit nearer to respectability-than when he first sat down...
...Administration economists now feel that the sharp, recovery-inspired rise in industrial production (23% since June 1958) is about ready to level off and, because of the steel strike, may briefly drop a bit. After the drop they see a rise in output to an even higher level. Leading the way will be the 1960 auto model year that begins in October, and a capital-goods boom that is expected to run at the annual rate of $34 billion by the last quarter of this year...
...serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste and childless, for the rest of their days--in spite, presumably, of the demands of the Life Force that they do their bit towards breeding the race. As the Devil in the dream scene of Man and Superman says about the Life Force, "it is the most resistible thing in the world for a person of any character...
These worthies are under the direction of Mr. Kilty, who has deployed them with considerable skill on a graceless set by William D. Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...
Frank Langella, who turned in two excellent performances in the Ionesco plays at Tufts a few weeks back, is a bit gawky and uneasy in the role of the young architect. Hopefully he will bring more poise and decisiveness to his movement as the run progresses. For he is one of the most versatile young actors seen in this community in quite a while...