Word: facet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most dazzling facet of the new production is Charles Laughton's performance as Undershaft. He is as suave, smiling, easy of manner as he is pointed and cutting in effect. And given Shaw's fireworks, he contrives no histrionics. As the play's director, on the other hand, he has invented as many tricks of staging as has Shaw of thought. For a while the two showmen get in each other's way, though eventually they set each other off. This is partly owing to an accomplished cast, including Glynis Johns, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach...
Landing in Washington, President Eisenhower turned his attention to another facet of Moscow relations-a personal note to Ike from Premier Bulganin calling on the U.S. to join with Russia in bringing H-bomb tests to a halt (but making no mention of the U.S. insistence on safeguards). Ike was nettled because Moscow had published the text before he had seen it. He was angry because Bulganin noted that "certain prominent public figures in the United States"-i.e., Adlai Stevenson -had proposed a plan to stop H-bomb tests. And the President characterized as "personally offensive to me" a charge...
...only will "party regulars" control the effort instead of "University Eggheads," but a basic facet of the campaign strategy here will be an attempt to disassociate Adlai's name from Harvard, and instead connect it with the Democratic Party label...
Clinical Detachment. There was no pussyfooting about the questions-or Ike's replies. Almost every facet of his health was canvassed, including the question of when he expected to feel well enough to play golf again (early October&*), and reports that his ileitis had left him with a debilitating dysentery ("No, as a matter of fact, they warned me that I should have a little of that and I never did"). As for the possibility of a relapse, Ike cited his doctors' opinions that in older men the chances were small; of the four other known cases...
...than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element of religion in his followers." Once in a graduate school seminar at which Parsons was not present, a student critized a facet of his theorizing. An indignant student, so the story goes, rose to the occasion and stood for half an hour passionately explaining how everything really did fit together...