Word: intent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly intent group of people who care about poetry and theatre has come again to the surface of the not so esoteric world. Poets' Theatre brought Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell to read their own work Sunday in Sanders Theater. The names have made headlines and aroused general interest, but for the five-year-old Poets' Theatre they are a small part of a movement that began weakly in 1950 and did not stay that way long...
...Enslaved. Author Hobart in her novel tells how two men slip ashore on the China coast to be guided by the anti-Communist underground into Shanghai. One is David Conway, Chinese-born U.S. businessman doggedly intent on rescuing a young American trapped by the Communists. The other is Mu San, whose father, a wealthy Hong Kong refugee, sent him to help Conway's desperate mission...
...unfortunate that the Band cannot play for tonight's program. The omission will not be disastrous, however; Snake Oil is more than able to stand on its own merits. A collection of unlikely situations and lively songs, Snake Oil is the tale of the Texas oil man, enthusiastically intent on cultivating his daughter and converting Radcliffe into a likeable brewery. The highpoints of the enterprise are the lyrics (Stephen Addiss and Caleb Crowell) and the music by Clarence Chang. Their best song, "Love Is Blind," is a melody of professional quality. Since it is amusingly staged and sung as well...
...Intent on those two aims-service to his adopted country and the cooperation of scientists in the pursuit of truth-Hungarian-born Scientist Teller carefully refrains from raking over the old controversy about whether an H-bomb should be attempted. He says he does not know enough to write of the political controversy over the H-bomb, "but I feel that great gratitude is due to the men who in those difficult weeks [after the Soviet atomic explosion about Sept. 1, 1949] arrived at the correct conclusions," i.e., to proceed with all possible speed toward the development...
...legality of Giorgio's requisition was, to put it mildly, highly dubious. As justification for it, Lawyer la Pira cited an 1865 law empowering requisition in case of disaster, and a similar clause in the present constitution-ignoring the fact that the intent in both cases was for the national government to take over, not a municipality. Communists uttered cheers and huzzahs, the right-wing Socialists passed a resolution of approval, and Tuscany's industrialists, who hate La Pira, denounced him. La Pira might gain more popularity, they sputtered, but he had achieved it by adding one more...