Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Daily Worker. Last week they found an unexpected windfall in the good grey New York Times. They clipped out a series of dispatches on life in Russia by Times Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury and reproduced parts of them. Crowed the Worker: "The articles [were] a refreshing, vivid contrast to the daily diet of highly imaginative bunk which the Times and its journalistic cohorts generally feed their readers" and "completely undermined" the "official line" of the U.S. that it is arming only against aggression by Russia...
...rather shameless (three of those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and Jerome Robbins' light and stylish dances provide an airy contrast to Miss Merman's earthy charm...
...designs for the Lionel Barrymore "Macbeth" of 1921 and the John Barrymore "Hamlet" of 1920 are masterpieces of expression, and at the same time, of dramatic force. Jones' costume sketch for John Barrymore as Gloucester is a revelation of character in every line, every color and texture contrast...
...triumveretta in one act," is as pleasant a way as any to start the evening. Though the words are not Gilbert's, the music is Sullivan', and the whole is a delightfully simple spoof, in contrast to the complicated plot in the main feature...
...rough order. He called it A Boy's Will. To his astonishment, the first publisher he tried accepted the book. In literary London, dominated by William Butler Yeats's misty grand manner and Ezra Pound's staccato snatches, Frost's cool voice was a refreshing contrast...