Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reminiscent of Noel Coward. Mr. Morse is admirable as the quarry of the love-chase, the baffled and laughed-at talker, but there is more to the character than the excitable little man he gives us. The "Olympian majesty" specified by Shaw is missing; Tanner's magnificent brashness becomes mere cheek. Mr. Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed to his ideas with any great intensity of the "moral passion" he talks about. It becomes a matter of little significance that the revolutionary activities of this Tanner should be circumscribed by marriage...
...lack of writers and actors in the tradition of high comedy, he pointed out, is another failing of American theatre today; and he condemned as mere "journalism" the popular practice of the dramatized novel...
...progress had been made. In fact, there had been no meaningful progress and no real Soviet concessions on the tough issues: the nature, methods and control of an inspection system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals for the test-ban conference, 2) set a timetable to keep it from dragging on indefinitely, and 3) force the Soviet negotiators to deal with the tough inspection issues instead of sliding...
Georgetown University's courtly Tibor Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound...
...fact, do U.S. critics any longer pant breathlessly over the mere novelty of Russian cultural performances or industrial exhibits. And as for the visits of the big Redwigs, the U.S. has toughened considerably in the half year since Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan got an openhanded, almost fawning reception from business and civic leaders across the land...