Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...
Dorothy Gish and Don Hanmer handle their frightened and frightening roles, their near-hysterical relationship, with decided skill; in fact, their performances are far better than the play. Theatrically, The Man is too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard: it lacks the proper seriousness of a clinical study, the proper tingle of a thriller. It is not merely that the piece is too slow-moving. The Man depresses instead of exhilarates, sets its audience longing for good wholesome maniacs and fine fancy killers...
Boom, Pause, Boom. It was hard for Columbia to believe. In 50 years Carlton Hayes had become an almost legendary figure on Morningside Heights. He was the elder statesman with the courtly manners who could call a greying colleague "My dear boy . . ." and still make it sound quite proper. He taught history with an actor's skill. Looking majestically out into space, he would boom a few sentences, then pause, then boom out again. Sometimes he would wrap his double-breasted coat close around him as if it were a cloak and seem to become Disraeli, Metternich or Bismarck...
...computermen scoff at such picturesque talk, but others recall odd behavior in their own machines. Robert Seeber of I.B.M. says that his big computer has a very human foible: it hates to wake up in the morning. The operators turn it on, the tubes light up and reach a proper temperature, but the machine is not really awake. A problem sent through its sleepy wits does not get far. Red lights flash, indicating that the machine has made an error. The patient operators try the problem again. This time the machine thinks a little more clearly. At last, after several...
Abraham Lincoln once defined the proper length for a man's legs: long enough to reach the ground. Nobody has yet found such a simple way to measure the proper size for U.S. corporations. After five decades of sporadic U.S. trustbusting, the problem was still unsolved: Who could fix the boundaries beyond which corporate growth ceased to be healthy and became malignant...