Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to say what makes an audience respond to a reading. Some of the most success works were the rather dramatic ones--often a brief introduction explaining the situation helped. Kunitz, especially, came off best in poems like "The Dragonfly," "The War Against the Trees," or "The Thief," in which an easily-explained situation gave listeners something to hold...
Sputtering with rage, Baghdad's well-heeled Communist newspaper, Ittihad al-Shaab (Unity of the People), for the first time openly criticized Kassem himself: "The release of these persons adds to the dangers threatening the republic. The amnesty decision does not respond to the urgent necessities dictated by the interests of the masses." But the deed was done...
...that the war was in its "last quarter-hour" that now, when optimism is plainly more justified, it is more soberly put. But time is proving De Gaulle's greatest ally in Algeria. Faced with increasing military pressure and declining Moslem support, the F.L.N. seems uncertain whether to respond with heightened terrorism or to try political persuasion of its own. With fanfare this week, the rebels released a young Frenchwoman, Marie-José Serio, whose mother had made a direct appeal to the F.L.N.'s sense of humanity. But at the same time, they shot dead a captured...
...something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir" in a mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...
...citizens in the Central Square area interviewed, one half had no answer to the question, "What are the issues uppermost in your mind?" Those who did respond named peace and economic problems as the chief issues...