Word: resultantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China, which has been actively promoting the Latin American tourist trade for only three years, stresses common interests, arguing that the Latin American republics and the "People's Democracy" share colored skin, a yen for industrialization, a mutual distaste for the yanqui. Result: Peking is fast replacing Moscow as the mecca of the Latin left...
Shaw's image of the romantic man, a soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility of our trying to take poor Octavius seriously--which may be just as well. Tom Martin is good as the new Leporello; Cavada Humphrey and Robert Rees Evans are adequate but labored as the heroine and hero of a romantic subplot...
...Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...
...Myra Mailloux seems all wrong as Patty O'Neill. There is nothing naive or innocent in this characterization; nor, for that matter, is there anything genuinely worldly. Miss Mailloux has a way of delivering her lines that makes one doubt that she really knows what she is saying. The result in an ingenuous Patty, wide-eyed but blank...
...that it was able to report healthy profits during the recession (1958: $877 million), while operating at only 60.6% of capacity. So much has the industry changed its complexion that steel stocks, once considered a risky speculation in a cyclical industry, are now considered attractive growth investments. As a result, they have been steadily moving up in the stock market until many of them are selling at alltime highs...