Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...
...British artists, as their Manhattan showing makes clear, is a love of portraiture and landscape. In the 18th century, Hogarth not only set down with unerring eye the look of crowded London coffeehouses, but portrayed the dissolute Englishman of his day with a skill and fervor far beyond mere pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave the nude, and Joseph Mallord William...
Coral Browne's Lady Macbeth also lacked depth, and failed in the sleepwalking scene. Yet, if theatrical, she was often commandingly so. And the two together went far beyond mere partnership in crime. Theirs was a fierce connubial bond that helped humanize a woman who all but lacks humanity and a man who all but loses...
...capitulated. The customary cliches about musical battles did not apply; she did not "sing like an angel." and she did not "sing her way into the audience's heart." She sang if anything like a fascinating demon, and hers was a far more turbulent appeal than a mere sentimental coaxing of the heart. She pierced listeners with the most exciting operatic voice, the most compelling operatic presence, of her generation...
...celebrated slimming down, it was hard to see why the Roman governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes and a few gestures, but a thing of passion and of peculiarly stylized and yet convincing movement that is distinctly...