Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private investment abroad," then blandly quoted two businessmen who had suggested this job for Commerce. Scattered through Kearns's lengthy prepared statement were yard-wide hints that Congress would do well to beef up Commerce's role in foreign economic policy. Sample: "Those responsible for developing an interest in foreign investment abroad, such as the Department of Commerce, should have a voice in the foreign lending policies of the public agencies...
Coward's boy-girl-boy geometry lesson starts off simply enough, but soon is complicated because it develops that the boys love each other, too. Coward is never gauche and never explicit, but as you can see, this heightens the interest in his study of apparently useless individuals and their diversions. We are diverted from a squalid studio in Paris to a thinly elegant apartment in London to a blatantly elegant one in New York, which proves that Coward knew that useless individuals also could be profitably diverted to the theatre in those three cities, for the purpose of seeing...
...very thoughtful direction by Duane Murner, who is also producer, the show moves rapidly and without any awkward pauses at all. This is no small accomplishment because there are some stretches in the script devoid of "wit," and, because the character are so transparent, there is little to hold interest in these long stretches. Quickly coming to mind, for instance, is a drunk scene in the second act, very lengthy indeed, that served only to aggravate the already parched throats of those in the crowd...
...Osborne canon, this play ranks as 'prentice work. Its virtues are mostly those that Look Back in Anger has to a greater degree. But because of them, it is improbable that any play of Osborne's will ever be lacking in interest...
...forms is a concern with important social questions which insures that he will always write about something worth reading about; since Rome burns every day, a cry of "Fire!" has a certain sort of interest that simple fiddling can never attain. And it means that even the least of his plays has a vitality, an urgency, that could not exist if the author were not passionately involved with every line. "Passion" is a frequently debased word in our time, but Bernard Shaw has reminded us of the existence of a moral passion that can be no less strong than...