Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...
...Tribune ran a front-page color cartoon showing a whiskered Uncle Sam smiling (regulars could not recall when Sam last smiled for the Trib) as he presented a bouquet to the Queen under the caption: "To a Charming Little Lady." Editorially, the Trib clucked in dismay over the bad taste displayed in restaging Lord Cornwallis' surrender during the royal visit...
...such a situation, according to Parkinson, is the old Trojan Horse ploy: "An individual of merit penetrates the outer defenses . . . babbling about golf and giggling feebly, losing documents and forgetting names . . . Only when he has reached high rank does he suddenly throw off the mask . . . With shrill screams of dismay the high executives find ability right there in the midst of them...
...levels, bring in only 755,700 bbl. of foreign crude a day. But Captain Carson's first statistics showed a daily August total of 982,300 bbl. The companies themselves estimate daily imports from now through December at 849,300 bbl. Though he professed no dismay. Carson warned tautly: "The only alternative to this program is mandatory action by the President, and I feel certain that such action will be taken if the program breaks down...
Canadians last week enjoyed the mixed blessing of having the world's hardest currency. A brisk international demand pushed the dollar to an alltime high of $1.0611 U.S., bringing joy to Canadian importers, dismay to exporters, and concern to the nation's money managers...