Word: secondbest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest...
...convincing the voters that the U.S. is also lagging in the space race, in rate of economic growth, and in scientific-technical education-and that all the lags together add up to a danger that the U.S. may slip to "second best" in the world. Such a composite "secondbest" issue is already shaping up among pundits. But it is a sticky issue for a Democratic candidate to grab hold of, involving a risk that it might lose votes by seeming unpatriotic...