Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical committee session, Arizona's Stewart Udall and New Jersey's Frank Thompson Jr. rallied the ten Rayburn Democrats behind the relatively adequate committee bill. They teamed themselves with Republicans, sometimes with union-bloc Democrats to kill off seven substitute bills offered in fast succession. In the final vote, Republican Boss Halleck provided six Republicans to side with the Rayburn Democrats (with still another Republican safetyman ready to switch if necessary) and vote out the committee bill...
...straight for the most part; though he was not afraid to introduce occasional bits of humor where they really belong, as in the phony prisoner-of-war inquisition. But, much to his credit, he had the good taste not to court a cheap laugh by having Helena make her final entrance obviously great with child...
...specific program, designed to meet the challenges of the next decade, includes continued military buildup regardless of cost, American support for Afro-Asian independence even in Algeria, adoption of a realistic China policy "in our own national interest," and American initiative in disarmament negotiations. As a final proposal, Finletter urged a complete disarmament plan "safeguarded at all stages...
...three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing the wedge of moral responsibility into our lives and consenting to suffer its risks and pains...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...