Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians seemed fairly baffled by the refined music and the obscure Jamesian plot, made no clearer by the strange language (the libretto, by Welsh-English Writer Myfanwy Piper, was sung in English). But the audience politely brought the fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...
With the Dewey decision, the Democratic side of New York's gubernatorial picture became much clearer. The Democratic nomination lay between Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and New-Fair Deal Diplomat W. Averell Harriman. The choice was up to Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio, who. with his fellow Democratic metropolitan county leaders, controls a deciding bloc of delegate votes in the nominating convention next week...
Actress Hepburn's appeal, it becomes clearer with every appearance, is largely to the imagination; the less acting she does the more people can imagine her doing, and wisely she does very little in Sabrina. That little she does skillfully. By contrast, Actor Holden seems almost too true to a banal type to be good. Bogart, however, being as much a symbol as the Hepburn is-and a cunning scene-stealer besides-holds his own with ease, and sometimes even sets little Audrey down, toreador pants and all, as a Vogue model who has risen above her station...
...believe that our people and the peoples of the Free World are confused as to how our government plans to use air power for peace. We believe it likely that the Soviets have no clearer understanding of our policy and not understanding it, are therefore unlikely to be deterred by it. We believe that our national policy must clearly define nuclear weapons as legitimate and conventional instruments for resisting aggression, or the Free World's temporary advantage in weapons technology will be seriously compromised...
This theology takes "seriously in practice . . . the traditional judgment that the Christian gospel is a word for this world ... Its characteristic hope looks for the ever clearer manifestation of God's sovereignty and the power of his promises in human history...