Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, Fry was of very little help to his actors. The people he created are, if anything, too articulate, and their lines are often so clever that they ring faintly of dishonesty. Poetry, especially as it is applied to the stage, can dig down into the depths of a human soul and reveal the raw emotions which lie hidden there. Fry's poetry seldom does this-it seems to float on the surface, a frosting on the dramatic cake. But if the poet cannot be profound, he at least knows how to be amusing. When the epigrams, many of which...
...they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher taxes will be needed to pay for nuclear spending. Last week, after "long reflection," the French Cabinet made up its mind where France's place lay. "We have...
Tory Democracy. Reluctant to risk his premiership so soon after waiting for it so long, Eden was nonetheless reported sympathetic to a quick election, possibly May 26 or June 16. Before then, he hopes, the new Cabinet will dig itself in and prove its competence. There will be no dramatic changes in British policy, either at home or abroad. The big names of the Eden Cabinet, notably Macmillan and the tough-minded Marquess of Salisbury, who is staying on as Lord President of the Council, share a warm though hardheaded friendliness towards...
...have their origin in the signs of the solar zodiac. In spite of the press of more urgent business-he was an official of the Y.M.C.A. in China, director of prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet, says he* could have had its origin only in some great "organizing principle" common to the ancient world as 'far back as 1400 B.C. The only principle possible: religion...
...their parents is indisputable. Students this year should take the Committee's handicap as a challenge to raise their contributions to former levels. The motto of the Combined Charities is "Give once. Give generously. This is the only drive of he year." Translated into negotiable terms this motto means: dig deeply...