Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After outlining the director's relations with the producer and designer, Guthrie said, "The really crucial thing is casting. Suppose I want to do Macbeth. Who is my first choice for the lead? Lawrence Olivier. But the Oliviers are more in demand than any other players in the world. So harassed are they with mountains of marvelous offers that they must feel as though they had to decide whether to tear up the Magna Charta before breakfast or put the Crown Jewels down the lavatory and pull the chain. So it is that a director almost never...
...Senate Armed Services Committee members seeking to restore $1.2 billion House-made 1958 defense budget cuts (President Eisenhower had called the cuts "a needless gamble"); but to have waited until House and Senate had passed the budget would have brought stentorian Capitol Hill cries of "double-dealing." In the crucial weighing of national security v. a balanced budget, last week's economy measure would not be the last. Said one Defense official: "There'll be more stretch-outs, more reductions, more cancellations. It's inevitable. It's the over-all trend...
...administrator and an adroit politician. Georgy Malenkov was probably too ruthless an intriguer for the big institutions (NKVD, the army, etc.) to entrust their future to. Though he lasted 23 months as Premier of the Soviet Union. Malenkov lasted only 16 days as First Secretary of the party, the crucial job Stalin willed him. Next in line after Malenkov in the hierarchy was Beria (who was quickly liquidated, a sop to popular anti-Stalin feeling, as much as for the crimes he had committed). Then came Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan...
...paralysis of the heart." The old tyrant gave Zhdanov the most pompous funeral since Lenin's, and walked behind the caisson with tears in his eyes. As boss of Leningrad before and during World War II, Zhdanov had placed a clique of up-and-coming young administrators in crucial posts. Scarcely had his body been lowered into a grave at the foot of the Kremlin wall when his chief rival, pudgy Georgy Malenkov, joined with Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria in persuading Stalin to liquidate the "Leningrad clique" and replace it with a Malenkov clique...
...Sunday-night duel between NBC's Steve Allen and CBS's Ed Sullivan, the TV industry checks the Monday-morning Trendex ratings and awards the battle stars to the show that captured more viewers. Last week the broadcasters learned from pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only four minutes at a stretch. The discovery makes a mockery of overall ratings...