Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...end, the Senate endorsed tax extension, 57-35. But it was a perilous victory for Johnson: all 35 nay votes were cast by Democrats. Analyzing the vote, restive Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark (TIME, July 6) pointed out that a majority of Johnson's Democratic troops were not following him, that he was having his way only through a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. Clark then began to circulate a secret tally sheet of seven recent key votes, showing that a heavy majority of Democrats supported liberal amendments, only to see them abandoned or defeated in conference committee...
Towards the end of Act I Blanche says to her sister, "I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! But this line is delivered as though by a tired prostitute, and not by a woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register...
Blanche DuBois has been looking all of her life for a gentleman, in the most literal sense. Her first gentleman was a homosexual youth who needed her help, but because of her own needs she was unable to help him. She failed him, and in the end destroyed him. She has continued through life looking for an anachronism--a 19th-century gentleman in a hard, fast-moving 20th-century world where gentleness in a man has become synonymous with weakness and or effeminacy. Mitch is her saving grace, but Mr. Rabb gives little emphasis to Blanche's desire to marry...
Miss Humphrey's performance, within the range of Mr. Rabb's interpretation, is carefully etched and compellingly played. Her drunk scene with Mitch towards the end of Act II is excellent. Standing in the middle of a large brass bed, she cries out her soul like an hysterical child, desperately pleading for magic magic, not realism. She can give you the virgin-like innocence of a child one minute and the drunken swagger of a two-bit slut the next. There is a fine Blanche latent here! There are some strang inflections and an unusual clipped speech that often give...
...end. the effort at global satire proves too strenuous. In spite of a climax as apocalyptic as any since King Kong was shot off the top of the Empire State Building, Author Condon falters as he battles both cold-war antagonists simultaneously. But in his comic set pieces, he is wickedly skillful. The book's most memorable incident reveals the true story of the Senator's battle scar. Stationed in Greenland, far from the smell of gunpowder but also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp...