Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into them guaranteed annual wages for the workers in our basic industries.' " Reuther announced that he had persuaded ten top economists and industrial relations experts (e.g., Harvard's Economists Seymour Harris and Alvin H. Hansen, Wisconsin's Edwin Witte) to serve as unpaid advisers to help smooth out the specific details of workable annual-wage plans...
While the Diamond music is occasionally exciting despite its lack of form, Handel's Fourth Concerto Grosso is a piece of soprific craftsmanship. Superficially similar to the Bach Bradenburg Council, it has none of their vitality and immediacy. The orchestra gave it a brisk, smooth run-through...
Somehow he persuaded the Kremlin to forgive his error; perhaps the black mark against him was erased by the smooth and effective way in which he (with Rudolf Slansky's help) engineered the Communist coup of 1948 against worn-out Eduard Benes and disillusioned Jan Masaryk. After that, all Gottwald had to do was suppress his rivals and keep Moscow happy, both of which he managed fairly well. But Moscow has not been 100% happy, for Czechoslovakia, a highly industrialized and once prosperous nation, has been in deepening economic crises for the past five years...
...twenty-minute film sketch shuttles you through a series of students' rooms, Adams' panelled dinning hall, the Master's residence and the Radcliffe Quad. But the film is not merely a dry House travelogue; exhuberant students appear in almost every frame. Also Ivy has attempted to smooth its scene shifts with humorous plot sequences, but the transitions are still reminiscent of a newsreel...
There are two things that make this particular production noteworthy. First is the remarkably smooth job that is done by the Tufts group. With only a few minor exceptions, the actors were professionally natural in their various guises. Particularly outstanding were the two students in the leading roles, Joe, the philosopher, and Kitty Duval, the whore. The treatments here were full and sympathetic, played with accomplished finesse...