Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express accused Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana of trying "to sneak Guinea into the Commonwealth by the back door," while the Paris press darkly hinted that perhaps the whole idea was a British plot to break up the French community in Africa. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan confessed that the whole thing came as a "complete surprise," and many Britons wondered why Nkrumah had not consulted his Commonwealth partners in advance. Nevertheless, the voice of pan-Africanism had spoken, and its echoes could be heard all through the week...
...curmudgeon of old. "I once asked Bernard Shaw which was his favorite Shakespearean comedy," wrote Elsa, "and he replied. 'Othello.' 'But Othello is not a comedy,' I told him. 'It's a tragedy.' Mr. Shaw quipped, 'Any play whose plot hangs on a lady's handkerchief must be a comedy...
...sensations of the decade in Russia. The 75,000 copies of the magazine Neva, in which it first appeared, were sold out almost immediately; a paperback edition of half a million sold out in one day. The Yershov Brothers bears some resemblance to Not by Bread Alone in its plot and its factory setting, but unlike Dudintsev, Kochetov will never have to make apologies to the Central Committee for inaccurate descriptions of Socialist life. His book is a sharp attack on those who tried to "take advantage" of the Party's 1956 leniency; intellectuals in general get a sound thrashing...
...intellectual and rhetorical powers, Jimmy's chief talents are for making his wife happy at night and miserable during the day. These facts, with the additional fact that Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's simple, sufficient plot. The air in the Porters' dingy attic is thick with a one-way stream of recriminations; Jimmy has no need to beat his wife when he can browbeat her so effectively. At one point she leaves him; eventually she comes back, and the curtain falls on the same situation that...
...many ruddy parties. Too many wives-too much nattering over canasta, coffee and so on . . ." What is worse, there is "hanky-panky with the bag," i.e., polite smuggling under diplomatic cover and black-market trade in PX items. This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that she could make her way through the simpler jungles of Malaya...