Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discretion. This was true, for example, of the Commerce Commission. In the case of radio, Congress never faced the problems and perhaps didn't even suspect their existence. The areas are depressingly complex; the agency is buffeted about by contrary winds and currents without chart or charter. The crucial question is not whether it has exceeded its grant of power, but whether it can frame a coherent policy for current problems. Basically, the facult, if any fault there is, is not the agencies' but the legislature's; and the indecision of the legislature reflects ultimately the inability and unwillingness...
...pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After her famous entrance ("ravished; her hands cut off and her tongue...
...Goodness of the Town has several virtues. He does not use verbal tricks. He is not impresed with his own prose. He has something to say. He says it. All of this is very reassuring in The Advocate. But I can only give a negative answer to the crucial question: "Does he say it well enough to move the reader?" There is really nothing wrong with this story, but nor is there enough right with...
...crucial factors for next year's squad will be the improvement of the returning lettermen and the performance of this year's fine freshman team when it moves up into the varsity ranks...
...crucial hours of the October revolt, Warsaw Committee First Secretary Stefan Staszewski backed Gomulka to the hilt, mobilized thousands of Warsaw students and workers into a scratch militia to fight the Russians if necessary. A fortnight ago Staszewski was replaced by a party functionary. Into top ministerial jobs went two other onetime Stalinists who had opposed Gomulka's early program. But the appointment which caused most suspicion was that of blond, poker-faced Zenon Nowak...