Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feature of the week's elections was that (except in segregation-conscious Virginia) there were no solid issues. The campaigns generally were fought and won on the basis of personality. One additional worry for the G.O.P. next year: it is shy on good, attractive candidates...
...chance to protest against Salazar. Traditionally, the opposition fades away before Election Day. But in 1953, for the first time in a reign which began in 1928, 28 candidates ran against his National Union; all lost. This year, muzzled and muffled, all the opposition melted by Election Day except four lawyers, a merchant and an agronomist in the defiant northern district of Braga. The opposition complained that it was denied equal access to press, radio and the voters' rolls, that its supporters were blocked from voting. Salazar airily dismissed all his opponents as "Communists," and warned of the tense...
...return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural mystery. Perhaps even more than Washington Irving's tale the pictures tell the weird swiftness of human life...
...annual Conference on the Economic Outlook last week, 108 topflight experts assembled for one of the year's most important business gatherings and gave their forecasts for 1958. As usual, the opinions spread across the full spectrum. But while in past years the great majority saw nothing except boom on boom, this time the prevailing forecast was for a downturn-though a minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady...
...Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Eileen Heckart, as Lottie, impresses many people as magnificent--a loosely jointed, many-toned caricature actress a la Roz Russel. She is often most amusing, often overdone. As a friend of Reenie's, Evans Evans is wacky, flappery, and fun, except in her emotional scene, where she seems hollow...