Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Street's Blood Wedding remains an intriguing exercise in experimental drama. And if it proves somewhat less successful than their previous efforts--and surely every experiment can't be a success--it is still a highly competent and provocative production...
...23rd CRIMSON score came as somewhat of an insult to WHRB, as the local newsmen inserted their cheerleader-manager from the Radcliffe Bureau to toss in a free throw...
While the number of officers available for duty in the next few years is expected to be somewhat smaller as a result of the change in policy, the shortage should soon even out. "We can do without some officers now to get better officers eventually," Spofford said...
...Quiet American (Figaro; United Artists). "Innocence," wrote Graham Greene in the novel from which this film is somewhat speciously taken, "is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." The leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another...
...free economy, said the report, "growth will inevitably proceed at a somewhat uneven pace." The "unfavorable feature" in the economy of 1957 was not the dip but the fact that, even with industrial capacity outpacing demand, the consumer price index kept creeping upward...