Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agression pact, however, does not seem an adequate answer to the disarmament impasse. While somewhat more substantial than the Dullesian criteria for Russian expressions of good-will (e.g., an end to the Soviet drive to "subvert independent countries"), the British idea cannot produce any lasting disarmament agreement by itself and may not even be sufficient as a first step...
Vincent J. Donehue's direction also falters in the first act when the performance leaves it uncertain who is the central character. Bellamy is offstage for most of the last two scenes, and the play may seem to be about Louis Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...Christmas and the sing-songy rhythms and rhymes, while appropriate for the subject, walk the poem too hard in places. Elsewhere it stumbles over metrically awkward phrases or inconsistent imagery: "But when we got there the manger was bare./ The land was sore athirst." Consequently, the Magi seem to progress with the poem in a series of starts and stops. It is appropriate for them to stumble occasionally, but they never seem to be really moving enough to have occasion for stumbling...
...scheming secretary not only writes his speeches but has the final say on his successor when the prexy leaves for what can only be a drearier job. The sociology professor who covets Pomton's job is so tiresome a fellow that his very honesty and earnestness make him seem more a threat to the young than the cynical and ambitious candidates who lust merely for academic power...
June. The Pusey-Buttrick forces seem to have driven out the Kennedy forces. The undergraduate directors of the Harvard Student Agencies (Inc.) will sail for Europe in an attempt "to find business opportunities for needy undergraduates." With the abolition of the Student Council, the group's old officers deliver a mimeographed letter to the undergraduate body, saying in part, "Because of certain evil and antisocial people, we, the officers who have served you so well for so long, will not get into the Law Schools of our choice." Eisenhower is still missing...