Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakneck Speed. As composer, Bernstein made an imaginative stab at welding popular music into artistic form, succeeded in producing some moments of brilliance. The jazzy tone was appealing, but the effect was so disjointed that the opera seemed like a study for another Broadway success like Lennie's own On the Town (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945). New York Times Critic Howard Taubman suspected that Trouble In Tahiti, was written at "breakneck speed," came away with the impression that it "could and should have been much better." A larger audience will have a chance to judge for itself: NBC will...
...letter of the recipe, he called in a tough guy, Robert Mitchum, and a seductress, Jane Russell, who really want to spend the rest of their lives on a rubber plantation in peace and senility. He added a nice, but clever, international cop, William Bendix, who gets stabbed, and rounded out the cast with a glassy-eyed, crooked, gambling-hall owner surrounded by inscrutable orientals who paddle after him and stab nice but clever international policemen. This crew wades through the plot outlined in formula number six, involving money, beautiful women, money, diamond necklaces, money, dice games, money, motor yachts...
Prosecutor Bauer, pressing yet another point, asked: Was the plot really a stab in the back? Historian Percy Ernst Schramm, wartime keeper of the Supreme Command's diary, testified: "The war was lost. Final catastrophe was certain. Only the date remained in doubt...
...leave more of his troops free to tackle Communist guerrillas operating near Hanoi. But Communists crowed victory. The capture of Hoa Binh gave them Route No. 12 as a supply line to the Chinese border; it also gave them a commanding jumpoff base from which their guerrilla bands could stab at Hanoi, and the rice-rich Red River delta...
...West Germany, where Pastor Niemöller's odd convictions are usually rebutted gingerly because of his prestige. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was, not unexpectedly, angry. "I deeply regret," he said, "that a German national in the position of ... Niemöller has chosen this moment to stab his government in the back." Protests exploded from other places. Said a spokesman for the Social Democrats, the fiercest opponents of German rearmament: "The pastor plays the Russian game." Snapped Welt der Arbeit, newspaper of the West German trade unions: "Niemöller seems to labor under illusions that...