Word: convey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald Thompson, playing the difficult role of a scared and frustrated youth, is competent as are few actors on the screen today. His shuffling walk, his painful stare, convey a sense of frustration and misery that lacks nothing. The supporting players, none of whom are "name" actors, bring out to the fullest the psychological implications of every scene. Clarence Cooper, a counsellor at Wiltwyck, plays himself in an especially sympathetic and understanding...
...presentation of "Richard II" was the most expensive undertaken by either dramatic group up to that time. It was believed that a Richard in rented costumes would not convey fully that king's opulent rule and degradation. So costumes costing $1600 were designed for the play by Robert Fletcher. "Richard II" was another impressive success...
...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...
Gaiety v. Wit. There is no earth-shaking action in the past & present story that Irish-born, English-educated Joyce Cary chooses to tell in To Be a Pilgrim (the fourth of his novels to be published in the U.S.), but Author Cary manages to convey one man's view of what has been happening to English life since Tom Wilcher's Victorian youth...
...report doesn't hurt NSA," he said. "It was meant to convey the impression that NSA is not dominated by Communists or the extreme left wing...