Word: prolongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaw will not let one off with a simple dichotomy; clearly there is a paradox and Hell is not all it's cracked up to be. Don Juan, the hero, chooses to escape to Heaven, while the stupid, if pitiable, Ramsden prefers to prolong his visit to the pleasure pots of Hell. No review can do justice to an interpretation of the play, but suffice to say that Man and Superman has paradoxes, ambivalences, and deeper meanings which the actors present clearly and without strain...
...organizations conspicuously boycotted U.S. Fourth of July celebrations in protest. Rumbled irate Defense Minister André Morice: "I don't know if Monsieur Kennedy spends peaceful nights without nightmares, but I do know that [his help to the Algerian rebels] will cost many more innocent lives and help prolong a drama that would have ended long ago if thoughtless friends had weighed their words and acts...
...George Washington University's Dr. Benjamin Manchester has piled up evidence that anti-clotting drugs help to prolong the lives of heart-attack victims by preventing subsequent attacks: in five years only 20% of patients so treated died, 14% of them from heart attacks, while in a comparison group, untreated, 53% died and 60% had further attacks. Cardiologist Manchester also reported on a new anti-clotting drug, Sintrom, valuable because it can be taken by mouth in small doses and works fast...
...executive, "maybe even Sid's psychoanalyst would be delighted to hear it." One part of the answer is simply that he has been visible too frequently for too long a time. Caesar's Hour has been uneven in quality, has suffered from a tendency to prolong sketches and milk laughs. Sidekick Coca is still missed, say diagnosticians, both for herself and because Caesar seemed more sympathetic as a henpecked fall guy in her sketches than he has as the assertive husband of Nanette Fabray and Janet Blair. Some argue that Caesar's artful lampooning of silent films...
...situation is humorous, and the spoof of prudery is carried off well. The local home guard captain feels it his duty to protect the morals of the people and a typically severe Calvinist mother tries to prolong her son's abstention. Happily, neither can alter human nature. Basil Radford as the self-important captain and Jean Cadel as the silver-cord keeping mother, are quite adequate, as is Joan Greenwood, who provides the film's sexual interest...