Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accusations, however, are somewhat tempered: "The thrust toward World War III is not a plot on the part of the elite, either that of the U.S.A. or of the U.S.S.R." But "Military necessity . . . has become a cover term by which those who proclaim and who decide in the name of the nation hide their incompetence and their irresponsibility. The only realistic military view is the view that war, and not Russia is the enemy...
AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 10--The government has claimed the discovery of a new plot to smuggle Egyptian arms into Jordan...
...uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment, and three midshipman officers who knew of the plot were broken to the ranks (the academy first said the demotions were merely for "administrative reasons"). Second upshot: Dr. Marius Johnson grounded his high-sailing daughter Susy...
...Passion (by Elmer Rice) has not gone to Hamlet merely for its title; it has gone there, quite openly, for its basic characters and plot. Since many Hamlets of one kind or another preceded Shakespeare's, it is not out of line that others should follow it; after all, it is for being the most fascinating of English plays that Hamlet remains the most familiar...
Fast editing is about the most notable element in the second-part of the Brattle's double bill. Unfortunately the cutting is done by somebody who had a lot of good ideas, but little taste. But what makes The Age of Infidelity a total dud is that the plot is as slow as the scene-switching is fast...