Word: contrivedness
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In an ending that is both delicately contrived and impeccably honest, Author Spencer triumphantly fuses all conflicts. Her American mother and daughter have dignity and grace, and if the absent Mr. Johnson runs to formula, he is at least understandable. For once, Europeans and Americans face each other in credible...
This time the Student Council's hastily-contrived inverse filibuster technique succeeded. After threatening to hold frequent meetings until it could obtain a quorum--and after calling a fifteen-minute recess at the first of these meetings to place a few judicious telephone calls to absentees--the Council came through...
A specially-contrived committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union last night endorsed Sen. John F. Kennedy '40, for President. Since the group could not obtain a quorum for a regular session, all members present were appointed to a special election committee to agree on a candidate.
The trouble is, perhaps, that Becket did not fascinate Anouilh; he merely tempted and challenged him. With that great facility that is his most self-damaging gift, Anouilh has contrived blunt or ironic or booming effects, pulled off scenes involving bedrooms and bishops and cynical Kings of France, and some...
Exuberant & Witty. Performed by Russia's eminent cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, and the visiting Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, the 28-minute concerto emerged as a work of compelling rhythms, long, curving lyric lines, exuberantly witty folklike figurations. Although its technical demands were tremendous ("If Shostakovich had written two more bars for...