Word: letdowns
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...James Callifer has found a measure of faith, but because the whole play is concerned with faith and not with sin, and because it pivots on a priestly uncle who fortifies rather than fails the protagonist. And though neither play fully sustains itself, the last-act letdown of The Potting Shed is more like that in The Cocktail Party. Here, Greene the playwright takes a whole act for what the novelist could wind up in a chapter...
Hubert dropped his transmission in Harvard Square, and coasted to a stop in front of the Wursthaus. The game itself was a letdown for Mary Jane, because Hubert had misspelled Yale on his ticket application, and had been informed by a Mr. Lunden that his application for Yule tickets had been rejected. They listened to the game on the car radio until the battery ran down, then walked to Hubert's room for the last half, during which Hubert attempted eight forward passes and completed none...
...hoped that Stevenson's end-the-draft call would draw the dramatic reaction of Ike's 1952 "I will go to Korea," but they were disappointed. The proposal was a dud; it was sharply criticized as a perilous panacea that would stir up neutralism abroad and preparedness letdown at home...
...girl and the awkward kid. Maria was a teenager who'd run in the wrong direction . . . and had never run into anyone like him." But adolescents who run to the theater expecting to see a hot-rod drama packed with jive-talking juveniles are due for a letdown. Burning Hills is simply one more version of the venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings...
...just as dangerous. Don't trust them an inch." At the conference sessions held in the Cabinet room at No. 10 Downing Street, Commonwealth relations with the Communist bloc were the main topic. Again the Asians argued for a softer policy, while the Canadians firmly opposed any letdown. At times the vigor of St. Laurent's and Pearson's objections seemed almost out of character, since at other conferences (particularly with U.S. diplomats) the Canadians have often argued for a more flexible policy toward Russia. But Pearson explained that the Canadians were merely seizing the opportunity...