Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry Kilty, as Ulysses, gives perhaps the top performance of the play. His interpretation of the shrewd Greek strategist, practical, polite, and somehow sinister is a quite convincing one. Hector, who comes closer to being the hero of the play then Troilus does, is a straight and rather dull part. Robert Fletcher handles it well, if with a bit too much restraint. His seting here shows considerably more reserve than in last year's performance...
...hero of Prince of Foxes is Andrea Orsini (Tyrone Power), who is not only a talented diplomat, but also a swordsman, painter, great lover, ordnance expert, politician and military strategist. Into the bargain, he is a peasant-born rogue posing as a noble cutthroat in the service of ruthless Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). While carving out a promising career in treachery, Orsini comes heroically to his senses on a tough mission: to conquer an almost impregnable little duchy by seducing the duchess (Wanda Hendrix) and assassinating the duke (Felix Aylmer...
...Recognition would jeopardize any U.S. moves in Formosa. So ran the debate. Last week another influential voice joined the discussion. The Republican's top foreign-policy strategist, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, returned to Washington, thinned down (by 30 Ibs.) but recovered from his operation. His answer to recognition was neither yes nor no. It was not yet. Said Michigan's Vandenberg: Communist China must first demonstrate its "competent control [and] its willingness to observe the rules of international law. In neither respect does it now qualify for recognition...