Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This arrangement, while sometimes visually static, has the advantage of putting the production's emphasis on the argument, where it belongs. The argument itself, partly because of Shaw's extraordinary ability to show both points of view, is as complicated as the plot around which it revolves is simple. Undershaft, a millionaire arms manufacturer, whose religion consists of the belief that poverty is the only sin, converts his daughter Barbara, a major in the Salvation Army, to his position by simply showing her that the Army can be bought. He is also looking for a successor to his position...
Secrecy always breeds rumors, and a widespread rumor in the missile business is that the Army hopes to toss a satellite into the sky ahead of Project Vanguard, which is administered by the Navy. Leader of this dark plot, according to rumor, is famed Wernher von Braun, chief creator of the German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus...
...last year, the hero is a cripple who tries to cross a forest to get home to his mother and has some scabrous sexual encounters en route. Malone is headed for a more universal home, the grave. Indeed, all that can be said with certainty about the plot of Malone Dies is that Malone does...
This collection of oddballs is wryly amusing as well as highly implausible. There is no plot, and the characters impinge on each other as temperaments rather than as people. All the action is in flashback, and the key act is a long-ago kiss stolen by the playwright from the virginal mother of three, a kiss that somehow set in motion for the woman and her future husband and children that secret civil war between Puritanism and passion, a war of the blood more openly and obviously dramatized by Author Morris in the spectacle of bloodless Americans watching the bloodfest...
...councillor also proposed that the City seize the plot of land opposite the entrance to the Fly Club and across the street from Claverly to convert it into a parking lot. "The University is not using that land for educational purposes," Vellucci said. "If Harvard won't do it, the city will take the land, put up parking meters, and let the students...