Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state of the nation's security on April 14, 1865 look appalling...
...Goldovsky's approach and the intensive rehearsal it entails have produced the sense of ensemble in his singers that is important for Rossini and crucial for Mozart. The second act finales in particular present unified vocal groups and not-as at the Metropolitan-a few soloists who happen to be singing simultaneously...
...cutting of speeches and shuffling of scenes in these last few minutes is more irritating because a good deal of time has just been wasted on a new version of why the crucial letter was not delivered, and dramatic shots of Romeo's wild ride from Mantua. It is too bad that the weakest aspects of the adaptation cluster at the end of the movie, since they tend to sour what is on the whole a perceptive and tasteful...
...time when the woes of a shrinking globe reach into the most insulated corners of the academic world, the study of international relations has become one of the most crucial areas of scholarship. For this reason, the recommendations of the Committee on the Behavioral Sciences for a center of international studies at Harvard deserves careful attention...
Gordon R. Willey, Jr., Bowdich Professor of Anthropology, said "most of us in the anthropology department are pretty well set in our offices in the Peabody Museum. A building is certainly not the crucial thing for integration," he explained. The report called the Littauer Center, after which the proposed social relations building would be patterned, "a testament to the values of contiguity...