Word: grander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These last few walloping scenes can be spendid entertainment. Their blend of unacknowledged incestuous desires, suspected homosexuality, actual heterosexuality, jealousy, revenge, and murder is, even in this production, lively and brisk. But these scenes, in order to make the evening fully worth while, demand emotional acting on a grander scale than the present Warrenton Street group can manage...
...regional offices of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow with the classy décor suited to the world's biggest manufacturer of advertising calendars and novelties. Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman's figure (124 Ibs.) behind her husband's curved desk than she let everyone know that she meant...
...most significant failure, however, is linguistic. He appears to be trying for a grander idiom than his customary one, and an occasional line reverberates with more than usual spaciousness. But many of the speeches are merely clumsy, as if the author was aiming for an archaic effect and did not know quite how to achieve...
...used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...
Never before had a Soviet economic plan-advertised as only the first installment of an even grander "15-year-perspective development plan"-been proclaimed that sounded so much like a political manifesto. It pledges Russia's 121 million workers "the world's shortest working week"-but at some unspecified future time. It promises that there will be butter for every Russian table, while "flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will...