Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedy-drama successfully handles the story of a prostitute who for the first time is loved for what she is, not for what she represents; and does this by neither patronizing the subject nor burlesquing it. The story is realistic without being objectionable, and includes just enough finesse to slip by the Blue Laws...
...with an ubiquitous corps of agents, and a bureaucracy as red-taped as could be discovered anywhere. The war-weariness, pervasive as he found it, has not prevented an increasing return to "normalcy" with prices beginning to come down and new products appearing. Lauterbach's Soviet will not willingly slip back into the wartime mold, but he feels that it can be inched back and that the process has already started...
...Odets was done exceedingly well, but even at its best it offered nowhere near the range of expression in either acting or staging that belongs to Shaw's creation. From every conceivable standpoint "Saint Joan" is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics. If you let it slip by without seeing it, you are depriving yourself of a rare opportunity to see a great play professionally and imaginatively performed...
...many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell to the floor...
Lowell's Bellboy quintet rang up its seventh straight inter-House victory yesterday afternoon, drubbing Dudley 58 to 35 to maintain a threatening position in the league race. The evening's activity saw league-leading Leverett avert a slip to second place by turning back a determined Winthrop five...