Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacLeish's play. I shall only say that I left my front-row seat three or so weeks ago with the feeling that the entire history of the theatre had existed solely to make possible this production of this play. Which is arrant nonsense, of course. Yet the statement is true at least to the extent that MacLeish has here adapted many diverse literary traditions covering a span of close to 2,500 years...
...discouraging aspect of the international scene," said Dulles in a 400-word statement approved by the President, "is the disregard by the Soviet rulers of their pledged word . . . The Soviet rulers, in relation to Berlin, seek to repudiate a whole series of agreements. They seem to feel at liberty to denounce at their pleasure any agreements which they have made as soon as they feel that these agreements no longer serve their purposes...
Dulles' stiff statement came in a week of generally stiffening attitudes toward Berlin. Khrushchev began it with a brazen threat that any Western attempt to break through to West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved...
...Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, is currently (among other things) art director of FORTUNE. But he has also kept on painting, producing a series of austere, severely painted portraits of men and women, remote and haunted-eyed. Says Lionni: "I am obsessed with one basic statement: man's loneliness, his fundamental incapability of communicating-and this is his tragedy. I try for the fixed and breathless static moment when man comes to grips with his condition...
...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...