Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro gives top priority to the Hawker Hunter, a British-built jet. Castro wants to trade in 17 propeller-driven Sea Furies on 17 Hawker Hunters from the British. The U.S. is opposed to any Caribbean arms race, but the British say they are still "actively considering" the Castro offer...
Crocodile Tears. First published as a book in 1938, and the first of Nabokov's Russian-language novels to be translated into English (by his 25-year-old son Dmitri), Invitation to a Beheading will offer innumerable meanings to readers-or no meaning at all. But the 20th century being what it is, the political interpretation comes first to mind. No period is stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre...
...book, to be published today, makes no attempt to offer a final solution. Instead, it tries to clarify the relationship betwen the faculties of the American schools, their students, and the society they are going to face...
...achingly poignant scene with Miss Humphreys, he too does fine work. If I have used word like "poignant" and "pathetic" with depressing frequency in this review, I should like to have used them a great deal oftener; for poignancy and pathos are nearly all The Glass Menagerie has to offer, and the only measure of the success of any production lies in how well it projects these qualities. The audience at Saturday's performance found a good deal of humor in it, but for the most part it made me want to whimper like a whipped dog at the unmeaning...
...annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude is worth anything to them, I offer it thus publicly and freely...