Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then (for no known reason) abandoned. Published for the first time in 1871, The Watsons was twice snatched up in the 19205 by authors (one of them Jane Austen's great-grandniece) who tried to complete it in a faithfully Janeish style. Now Novelist Coates has taken another stab at the job. What Coates had to start with was a typically Austenish setup: a poor widower with four unmarried daughters; sundry eligible young men ranging from a peer to a parson; a slew of poor relations, aunts, uncles. Coates tries manfully to convey at least half a dozen...
...Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...
...doubtful whether the last minute changes mattered a lot. Here is a rag-tag sketch, something informal, something that would suffer more from a bad stab at giving it professional gloss than from the loose and chaotic treatment Charles Mee, director, has given it. Not to say, of course, that a slick, carefully conceived job mightn't have been better; just probably impossible here...
...Project Pioneer's stab toward the moon was only the beginning. At Cape Canaveral this week, missilemen were busy at launching pads and hangars, preparing for two new moon shoots: a second by the Air Force, set for next month; another by the Army, before year's end. Beyond that lay plans for still another new space bird, whose job it will be to map the entire earth. In the fast-maturing age of missilery, a world of new wonders was in the making...
...even before Callas quit, Tebaldi made a surprising maneuver: she announced that she would not sing at La Scala without Callas. "I sing only for artistic reasons; it is not my custom to sing against anybody," she said. Groaned Manager Ghiringhelli: "This is a stab in the back." To some critics and subscribers, a Scala with no top diva seemed a disaster. Others considered the price well worth the exit of Callas. "She corrupts public taste," cried the Giorno critic. "She lowers the noble assembly of the theater to the level of an arena...