Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, at 90, had an unfinished new play, but he might burn it, he said, instead of bothering to complete it. Shaw's tentative title for it: Piffle...
...approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead...
...first time in New York, for the benefit of television watchers, boxers wore new-style black-on-white and white-on-black trunks, instead of the familiar purple & black or red-&-black trunks...
...from censorship. On conference copy (as the Russians had promised) there was no censorship at all-and some of the stories sent out were fairly rude to the hosts. A special teleprinter was set up at the Moskva, and some stories cleared to the U.S. in only two hours, instead of the usual seven or eight. A New York Times correspondent tested the new freedom with a wisecrack: "Russian hospitality has seen to it that Moscow is cleaned up like a Dutch kitchen-or as some cynics say, like a Potemkin village."* The censor just waved the copy...
Luckily, there are several scenes in which the disconsolate pair are allowed to forget this special situation and to act, instead, like any number of other postwar people whose trouble is simply that they have been apart too long, in worlds too different. These scenes are conceived with enough simplicity and insight to give the actors a chance. Whenever they get the chance, they give the show a lot more than it gives them, and The Years Between comes to life as honest domestic drama with persuasive historical overtones. Valerie Hobson is able as well as beautiful, and Michael Redgrave...