Word: seem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play seems a little lonely, a little too distant from its materials, a little too given to mood. Music does service for speech; the Inge touches, the Inge faces, even where effective, seem overfamiliar. Perhaps the play's too plangent and elegiac title helps express what is unsatisfying about its text...
Friendly Critic. While the subject matter may seem ponderous, the treatment is not. Beginning in 1938 with Editor Crowther, a brilliant writer with a gift for aphorism ("the soft underbelly of Europe" was his phrase, not Churchill's), the Economist has produced some of the best writing in journalism. Parkinson's Law (that administrative staffs grow an inexorable 5% a year) was first drafted in the Economist. A friend to the U.S., the Economist can still issue sharp criticisms of U.S. policy: "The Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular...
...have shown little growth, and General Foods has only one product in the dietetic line (D-Zerta), is considering plugging it among complexion-conscious teenagers. The industry agrees that geriatric foods are a promising and challenging field, but so far oldsters have not shown much stomach for foods that seem to set them apart, though they are often forced to eat baby foods. General Foods is looking over the geriatric field, may move in if it can figure out the right kind of food...
...draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign. But according to Alanbrooke, Ike and Mark Clark never did seem to know what that part of the war was all about. A much better collaborator in the Alanbrooke plan was Hitler himself. By fighting where Brookie wanted him to, he dispersed German strength and made victory possible...
...Grand Tour through Asia his attempt to pursue the same approach in Europe reveals the failure of his administration to come to gripes with the concrete problems of western alliance. Le grande de Gaulle is unlikely to be swayed by Ike's folksiness. Nor does the "new Eisenhower" seem much more likely than the old Ike to restore unity within the alliance over the timing of a summit conference, the solution to the problem of Germany, or the developing clash between the inner six and the outer seven, for although the willingness to travel may be new the policies...