Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson has also announced his position, but for this country the Panama crisis is only one of a dozen in the first few weeks of the year. Unless this dispute grows into a chronic embarrassment or explodes into a disaster, the President is adept enough to keep it from...
An excuse or two remains. The libretto was a translation from Menotti's Italian (but since his English is good enough to charm flowers into bloom, it is a puzzle why he put up with such a poor job). Menotti is simply not glib enough to be much of...
In a land of typhoons and earth quakes, carrier pigeons have proved themselves reliable disaster insurance, able to get through with photographic negatives (up to 20 frames of 35 mm. film in a plastic capsule) where modern communications are blacked out. The pigeons broke into journalism when the great 1923...
The play, as you might expect, is in every way archtypically "absurd." Four characters with the unlikely names of Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell (the last two spend the entire evening in barrels) perform against a backdrop of webbed string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes...
Hoffmann said that France's move was "not necessarily a disaster unless we make it so. It will be one only if we make too many concessions to Red China and allow her to take control of all of China."