Word: mar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predictable surprise ending are all belabored here. Lacking only is Shaw's sincerity and wit: In the part forced on Cotten, the "superman" seems barely capable of running his own life. And any clever lines are spare indeed, while almost-clever lines pop up again and again to mar the play...
HOLT CONDON Corona del Mar, Calif...
Perfect Projection. The show came to its conclusion exactly on time. As a television performance, it had come off remarkably well; it was smooth, well paced and almost completely free of the little distractions which often mar nonprofessional appearances. But its real significance lay deeper: Ike, articulate and perfectly at ease, had engineered a successful new method of political communication from the White House to the U.S. The show provided a perfect projection of his friendliness, warmth and underlying firmness. Within the hour politicos were predicting, with partisan delight or partisan foreboding, that he could make TV a formidable political...
When twice-divorced Angie Duke be came a Roman Catholic and married the beautiful granddaughter of a Spanish mar quis, their delight with "El Duque" was complete. It was not unusual for President Oscar Osorio himself to drive up unannounced to the embassy and take potluck luncheon with the Dukes...
These two deficiencies seriously mar what otherwise would be an excellent report. Because of this, we hope that the Senior Fellows--as well as their new Chairman, the future President--will consider this as a Supreme Court Justice once considered a particular majority decision. This decision, he said, is like a railroad excursion ticket, good for today and today only. Yet this should not be the final word, for there is much that is good in the Corporation's handling of these cases. The extreme liberal may be outraged by the fact that Harvard, in a statement retaining...