Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as her knack for pleasant semi-singing. Jack MacGrowran, as the Captain's fairweather sycophant, Joxer Daly, makes a pleasant if repetitive performance out of his slight build, weasly face, and nimble-stepping cringe. The other roles are taken mostly by singers and dancers whose acting appears to stem more from necessity than inclination...
...Broadway last week, spokesmen for the U.S. theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...Rumania, long known for its virulent antiSemitism, the Jews get little help from anyone. During the Nazi occupation, their numbers were reduced from 757,000 to 430,000; after World War II about 60,000 were allowed to emigrate to Israel. Today's flashes of anti-Semitism stem partly from the prevailing economic discontent, and from resentment of those Jews who became Communists after the Russians took over-the Russians reasoned that Jews were safely anti-Nazi. Now exit was made as tough as possible for everyone who applied...
More immediately, it is an excellent and exciting melodrama--melodrama because its kicks stem directly and indirectly from a fast, explosive, and physical series of crises. The plot was taken from a veritable mine of visceral sensation: the case of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, as told in a story by Donald Taylor. In the last century, it seems, the teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh were forced to deal with "resurrectionists" for the dissection subjects they needed. Two of these "vicious human vermin of the gutters of the city" find it more convenient to murder than...
...1930s, May holds, there was not so much of this sex-based anxiety, especially in the U.S., and neurotic anxiety then seemed to stem mainly from repressed hostility. Since World War II, Dr. May contends, there has been another change: most of the anxiety that he sees in practice comes not from repression of instinctual drives, but from the fact that too many people feel that life has lost its meaning for them. This, he argued, brings normal, "existential" anxiety to the surface. Nowadays, when people first sense this normal anxiety, they may still repress it, and consequently develop...