Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop-the-H-bomb" mood: "It's a great wrench. We just had a family reunion, and there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which was separating just as the drama approached some sort of climax. But I agree with Stew that his own career has to come ahead of the interest of being a Greek chorus...
...poets are too many for discussion here. They range from Peter Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...
...Tunisia itself neither disputant seemed so reasonable. When France defied Bourguiba's demand for the closing of five French consulates, Tunisian police forcibly shut them down and evicted their staffs. Bourguiba appeared to be adamant in his insistence that France must evacuate not only the dozen or so minor French garrisons scattered throughout Tunisia but also four airstrips and the vast naval complex of Bizerte, which is the French navy's most important Mediterranean base after Toulon...
...only flaws in the acting are on the part of the minor characters, who sometimes mouth their words or shuffle about the stage. The most difficult part, that of the heroine, is done unassumingly and well by Nadine Duwez. Roger Kline, a veteran of the Harvard French stage, puts the most emotion in the part of Thesee, the deceived husband; and Robert DeLancey plays Hyppolite, the stepson, with a competent, dramatic voice. All of them, as well as Mrs. Claude Carey as Aricia, speak French with surprising fluency...
...next step in evolution with consequences that may be even greater than those of man's evolution as a land animal." His latest book carries glimmerings of the awesome dimensions of that step, but at times, the dialogue interferes. One line, at least, should be permanently retired. A minor planet is graced with the unexpected landing of a giant rocketship. The flustered local dignitary goes forward to greet the visitors. For a moment words fail him, and then he blurts out: "You're from Earth-I presume...