Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting roles in Macbeth are notoriously less fully rounded on paper than those in the other great Shakespearean tragedies, and thus require special efforts for appreciable individualization. In a good many cases the present cast is up to the task...
...more than fitting to address her in a paraphrase of Lady Macbeth's own words: "Great human being! worthy woman! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! They acting hath transported us beyond this ignorant present, and we feel now the future in the instant...
Criticizing the use of history to explain the compositions of great artists of the past, he said that even so great an artist as Mozart becomes artificial to present-day music lovers if he is seen only through history...
...private farms. So stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
...steel truce that he went back to an 1888 statute (affecting the duties of the U.S. Labor Commissioner) to find authority for stepping into the dispute as a one-man factfinder. Said Mitchell: "In the interest of the American people, all the reasons for and circumstances surrounding the present strike should and must be determined. I will keep the President advised periodically as to the facts...