Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carryover from his military days, is accentuated now because of the President's relative unfamiliarity with political problems. It was understandable and even excusable in his first year, but now well into his second, the time has come for Eisenhower to declare his independence, at least on such crucial issues as the McCarthy one, and act with the courage and strength which caused him to be elected...
Because of the highly-stylized structure of the play, the settings themselves are crucial. The cathedral assumes almost the role of a character, for Eliot continually emphasizes that Becket, and indeed all saints, find salvation through the Church. That the murder is in a cathedral adds not only the dramatic impact of sacrilege, but shows the essential oneness of the saint and his Church. Many of the classic productions of "Murder in the Cathedral" have been staged in churches. In these productions--the audience far back and the action heightened by the mass of the architecture--the result...
Paying Saragat. Then Scelba turned to the job of measuring out the high price the 264 Christian Democrats had to pay to win the few (38) but crucial Parliament votes of three splinter parties of the democratic center. Most essential to Scelba's success, and therefore the hardest bargainer, was Giuseppe Saragat, the wavery leader of the Social Democrats. When Pietro Nenni sold out Italian Socialism to the Communists in 1947, Saragat founded a rump party of anti-Communist Socialists. Though his party's strength was cut in half at last summer's elections, Saragat...
...endless chatter of Italian recitatives, reminded her of the Metropolitan's new stage layout. At 5:30 she was polishing off a preperformance steak ("If I don't eat, I feel weak before the show is over"), and at 6:45 was going over some crucial musical points with Conductor Fritz Stiedry. "I told him-I mean asked him-to have confidence...
...this makes a little masterpiece of Judy's big seduction scene, in which she drifts dazedly down the old millstream of her instincts (absentmindedly slipping off her shoes and undoing an earring), right to the crucial point when she remembers that Lawford had billed her as "the average American girl," who shouldn't be doing such things. Nevertheless, Judy is so good at this one role that it would be interesting to see her play another...