Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, dedicated drama lovers have been bemoaning the decline of the U.S. theater. They have watched the number of legitimate playhouses in Manhattan drop from 75-odd (in 1929) to 32 (in 1955), and have seen the once heavy traffic in road companies dwindle to a mere trickle. Some would agree with New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Walter Kerr's acid contention that "nobody-but nobody-is willing to subject himself to any contemporary theatrical experience he can get out of," but many may be jolted by Critic Kerr's current diagnosis of the ailment...
...allowed corporations to postpone paying taxes on prepaid income or reserves needed for future expenses until they were actually used, and to defer taxes on income paid in advance for services or rents (TIME, April 4). The Treasury reckoned that the immediate drop in 1955 revenues would run a mere $50 million. Instead, revenue began dropping at the rate of nearly $1 billion a year, as corporations postponed paying taxes on reserves for vacation pay, pensions, maintenance and repairs. Now, after the House approves the Senate version, businessmen will have to recompute the taxes on their 1954 income...
...lady's spiritual decadence is well conceived, but not always well narrated. Although her medium (the pianist who is afraid to call back old memories by playing her piano) would seem hackneyed, it somehow comes out highly original. Originality, however, when carried too far, is only once removed from mere oddity, and Miss Harnett's descriptions sometimes step over the fine line that separates them. "An Empty Salon" is a fairly good portrayal of the struggle for courage to live, but I suspect it was given top billing more for its length than anything else...
...times to enter into honor able negotiation, they will negotiate from strength, and will not negotiate away territory. They are not about to trade away Formosa or Germany, or both, to buy some dubious Communist promise. They will agree to genuine atomic control and disarmament, but will shun the mere appearance of agreement and control. They will take all honorable measures for peace, but will yield no real estate or no principle. The strategy, summed up, is deterrence without bellicosity...
...from younger, advance-guard painters. Illustration is anecdotal, as Hopper's art is not; he avoids cute touches and tells no story. Yet because his sober realism is as different from the abstractionism now in fashion as it is from straight illustration, some abstractionists dismiss him as a mere illustrator. His pictures lack "paint quality," they say, and indeed he does lay paint on canvas as dryly and flatly as any calendar painter. But Hopper's purpose is not to seduce the eye with dribbles or explosions of paint-for-paint's-sake; he makes paint subservient...