Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking on the subject of "Germany and Her Neighbors," the former U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany also said that the recent friendly relationship between Germany and France and the reduction of the historic enmity between the two countries offers promise of progress "towards the goal of a United Europe...
...writer. He is reputed to be a man with a past full of most imaginative sexual contacts, and less imaginative jail sentences. As a playwright he draws on his acquaintance with the part of mankind most easily mistakable for rats, and adds a grotesque imagination to depressing subject matter. Occasionally, pure ugliness achieves dramatic effect via shock. Often it is simply ugly...
...last night's lecture, "Free Germany Reviews Its Past," Conant stated his reason for his choice of subject thus: "Just because of the fact that we are allied with a free Germany, I believe we need to make an unemotional exploration of that period when criminal madness held Germany in chains...
...third poem of this issue, "The Return of the Magi" by George Starbuck is neither ambitious nor very successful. It's about taking the Christ out of Christmas and the sing-songy rhythms and rhymes, while appropriate for the subject, walk the poem too hard in places. Elsewhere it stumbles over metrically awkward phrases or inconsistent imagery: "But when we got there the manger was bare./ The land was sore athirst." Consequently, the Magi seem to progress with the poem in a series of starts and stops. It is appropriate for them to stumble occasionally, but they never seem...
Miss Isabel (by Michael Plant and Denis Webb) is Shirley Booth, but even that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...