Word: sirens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of speeches against Democratic Administrations. For the first four years, he said, the Eisenhower Administration had made progress toward the goals of economy and efficiency enunciated in 1952. Now he feared it had been gripped by some "strange and mysterious force," had been lured by the "siren song of socialism," was tending toward "squanderbust government . . . economic inebriation . . . bloated government...
...part is still playing in New York, they put the show over with considerable verve and finesse. Ralph Lowe plays the lead in suitable all-American-boy style. As Applegate, alias Mephistopheles, Ray Walston is properly sardonic and fast-paced. Devra Korwin, who handles the part of the standard siren played by Gwen Verdon on Broadway, is the major sex interest of the show. As a dancer, she is expert, but as a singer she is better to look at than to listen...
...Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely expected that London too would be shaken for its sins. Coachloads of gentry left for the country. Others, in the spirit of Mrs. Miniver, carried on. and ladies stitched "earthquake gowns" (a preview of World War II's "siren suits...
...door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized to aid another group of refugees from the other side of the Hungarian border, offering succor, shelter, food, warmth and welcome...
...staging this Old Vic's Troilus, Tyrone Guthrie has swept the décor and atmosphere of the play some 30 centuries forward. He has boldly evoked an Edwardian world full of prance and panoply, his Trojans very British, his Greeks very German. He has shown a siren Helen lolling against a cream-and-gold piano; he makes Pandarus frock-coated and effeminate, Thersites a disheveled cockney war photographer. He might find license for his anachronisms in the play itself, where Hector quotes Aristotle...