Word: tenuousness
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Britain has assumed-rightly or wrongly is beside the point-the definite obligation to lead India to honorable adult membership of the family of free and equal nations, either inside or outside the tenuous bonds of the British Commonwealth. The development of Indian self-government has been clearly denned British policy since 1917. In 1929 it was clearly stated by the British Government that Dominion status within the Empire was India's manifest destiny, a free and equal partnership with the other self-government Dominions. India could have had such status for the taking in 1935. She has recently...
...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...previous presidential candidate, has left behind his record of foggy platitudes. No longer can he be labeled simply "Republican," with the overtones of Fishy Taftism. Willkie and the Old Guard have been estranged since his announced support of the President's foreign policy. After Monday's speech, even those tenuous bonds are finally shattered. The former "barefoot boy from Wall Street" has subjected Tory imperialism and Dollar Diplomacy to the most scathing public denunciation in recent years...
...specialist in vaguely visceral abstractions, and Leon Kelly, a U.S.-born newcomer, who had been painting odd dreams in Paris and Philadelphia for years, but had waited a long time to show them in broad daylight. Drawn with the care of an Italian Renaissance master, Kelly's tenuous vistas had a quietly horrifying aspect...
Dramatic Criticism, at best, is tenuous and un-substantial. The sure way of gauging a play's true worth is to view it in the best production possible. Through a variety of circumstances New York has become the center of America's commercial theatre. And the drama reviewers on the New York papers have more or less set the dubious standards of quality for the American theatre. There are also trade papers, weekly magazines and a few scholarly articles in Theatre Arts Monthly reviewing shows, but by and large, dramatic criticism is slight and much too subjective to support...