Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trips from New York to California. San Francisco, once no days away from New York by sailing packet, 2½ days away by rail and eight hours by nonstop piston transport, will move to a short distance of 4½ hours. The 49th state of Alaska will be closer to Washington-nine hours or so-than was the capital of Delaware...
...French navy shelled coastal villages and French air force bombers destroyed 44 native settlements inland. In vengeance for 100 European dead, the French killed thousands of Moslems. Officially, French authorities place Moslem casualties at 1,005, but a prominent French politician recently estimated that the actual figure was closer...
...luckless Lebanon, it showed signs of turning into an uglier situation than the one the U.S. went in to reverse. This time it is the Christian half of the populace, rallying closer to former President Camille Chamoun than they did when he was in office, who are the rebels. Chamoun now excoriates the U.S. for endorsing a regime that contains only his enemies. Just as Chamoun swung too Westward for Lebanon's Moslems to stomach, now the rebelled Cabinet swings too far toward Nasser for Chamoun and the Christians to tolerate...
...life, using the technique that he made familiar on his Omnibus music-appreciation series. His explanation: "How many times have you sat there and had a new piece of music thrown at you by Theocritus Schwartz or John Foster Doe and longed for something that would bring the piece closer...
...however uneven and overlong, A Touch of the Poet has impact in a theater whose playwrights generally stand far closer to Con Melody than to O'Neill, in gaudily yet transparently trying to pass for what they are not. O'Neill's stubborn force and burdened, honest feeling help light the way of American drama even when he himself is losing it. And the production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role...