Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the three actors in his work all present fine performances. As the hoodlum, Nick, Edward McKirdy not only looks right, but also hits upon just the right way of moving and talking. His is a well-observed and, at the end, even sympathetic piece of acting. Only one minor cavil could be raised: one or two of his lines cannot be understood. As the two policemen, William Gurton and Charles Potter are somewhat eclipsed by McKirdy's role and performance, but they nonetheless acquit themselves with credit...
...real, though relatively minor shortcoming in The Questioning of Nick must be laid at the door of the director, Peter B. Kane. He prodded his actors along too rapidly at the beginning, and thus dissipated some of the energy inherent in the climax of the play. Furthermore, during this climactic scene, he permitted McKirdy to deliver some of his lines too slowly, and with his back toward the audience. These faults, however, can easily be corrected for subsequent performances...
Space-minded strategists, some of them official, have plugged for satellites as orbiting dugouts from which operations might be conducted against the earth below. A relatively minor experiment that the Air Force told about last week showed that satellite-based aggression may not be so easy as it sounds. On the night of Oct. 16 a standard Aerobee research rocket was fired at Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. At 35 miles altitude the nose separated from the rest of the rocket and coasted up to 55 miles. Then the nose exploded, but in no ordinary way. Inside its aluminum...
...Stalin Peace Prize tries to explain and expose that evil Red magic; he sees Big Brother's ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor place in the long shelf of disillusion, alongside the works of such better writers as Koestler, Silone, Orwell, Malraux. The fact remains that Big Brother's U.S. pen pal has a conscience that seems to work slower than most. In accounting terms, he might be described as LILO-last in, last...
...announcing this today, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty let newsmen know that the President is in the recuperating stages from last Monday's minor stroke, even though he is reported making steady progress toward recovery...