Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to report was the Dramatic Club, which named Paul S. Burggraf '48 as president, Peter V. Poor '47 as vice-president, and Richard S. Milstein '48 as secretary-treasurer...
...really fool enough to think that an appreciable amount of grain will be saved by voluntary sacrifice? I go into the grocery store and there is a cake. I buy that cake because I know that if I don't, my smarter neighbor will, and the poor Italian kids sitting across the table from us will still starve. (All cake is gone by 6 p.m. no matter who buys it.) The problem is one of getting the grain before it becomes cake. We won't eat it only if we can't get it. Let the Administration...
...looting. O'Casey, with hundreds of others, was corralled and locked up by British soldiers. "Th' wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough and the Stars, run through his pages like the River Liffey through Dublin...
Since the break-up of the original American Ballet Russe, the public has had to choose between a good company nta exorbitant prices and a poor one at popular levels, but last week the Ballet Theatre announced its departure from the aegis of sticky-fingered promoter S. Hurok. Perhaps this presages a good company at exorbitant prices and a poor one duce at least one company of ample resources, free of prohibitive commercialism...
...production enhance "Open City's" effect as a movie. The performances are simple and restrained, but never miss an opportunity for full dramatic expression. Because the subtleties of acting and of direction are more of the camera than of the sound-track, Americans need not be disturbed by the poor English titles. Nor should they become impatient if the plot seems complicated at first, for they will find much more in "Open City" than its story of manhunt, torture, and death...