Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito accused Peking of opposing "political coexistence" and fighting liberalization inside the Soviet bloc. Red China's new people's communes, he said, have little in common with Marxism, "but if this military trend of socialist development suits them, this is their affair. Only let them leave us alone...
...Mateos tapped his finger on the table for attention. "Gentlemen," he said. "Perhaps you did not notice the sign over the door. It says Secretary of Labor. I am here to represent labor." In six years López Mateos' office handled 62,191 disputes, let only 13 grow into strikes...
...truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's exposé run its full course this week, end with a series of pointed recommendations. Among them...
...Alfred, when he was ten ("I spent a great deal of time block-lettering the title at the top of the score"), eventually won a graduate scholarship to Juilliard, studied composition with craggy Modernist Roger Sessions. He arrived on Broadway "purely by fluke" when he persuaded Melvyn Douglas to let him write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans' Hamlet, The Trojan Women, A Streetcar Named Desire...
With any such retelling comes the added fascination of comparison: it is like returning to a former home to see how someone else has furnished it. In Cue for Passion the furnishings are sparser and extremely modern, with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified...