Word: contrivedness
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He answered the Philippines' demand for $8 billion in reparations by pointing out that such reparations in the end would have to come from the U.S., which has already given the Philippines $530 million for war recovery. He quieted Australian and New Zealand fears of Japan by presenting them...
The oil & water states kept up their fight, and understandably: Texas in one year got $14 million for school money from tideland royalties. Oil interests sided with the states: they liked the leases they already had, found state legislatures easier to deal with than the Federal Government, and had a...
One of Chou's special assignments: to organize an insurrection among Shanghai's workers. With other veteran Communists, he sneaked into the city, secured arms and training grounds, and succeeded in organizing some 600,000 workers into terrorist bands. When Chiang discovered that the Communists intended to seize...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel Eng lish characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March 26).
Comedy, however, does not accurately describe this play, for there is nothing really funny about it. As is the case with much American humor, the intended comedy depends solely upon exaggeration. In this particular mishap, a maudlin youth called Willy Baxter goes through the throes of his first love. While...