Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turncoat libertine, Charles Surface, D. T. Sullivan tends to fall into the trap of letting the stylized presentation of the play color his performance too much. Charles is a profligate but he would add better conrtast to the play if he were...
...Soviet Union's policy has definitely changed, declared Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito last week, and as a result, he said, international tension has eased. "If anyone is competent to recognize a trap, it is we," said Communism's No. 11 heretic, who is, of course, still a Communist. "Because of our experience, we can distinguish between what is a maneuver and what is a positive step," he added. To Tito, the Russian change is more than a maneuver...
...tyranny. Both are attracted to the same lusty Italian opera singer, and when she bears a child, neither brother knows which is the father, and the girl can't tell. Bit by bit, they withdraw to a life of bitterness, become the butts of neighborhood hoodlums, booby-trap the house and retire to an existence of unwashed queerness. When the police finally break into the house, the stench is pretty bad. Novels like this one, which draw on the pap of fact and melodrama, are reasonably sure of an audience. My Brother's Keeper has been tapped...
Some students climbed Memorial Hall fire escapes, broke into the Psychology Laboratory beneath the stage, and attempted to force a trap door leading to the Sanders stage...
...unharmed. One evening last fortnight, however, as Leakey, his wife and his stepdaughter Diana Hartley were having supper at the farm, a band of 30 Mau Mau swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana emerged an hour later, her mother was lying dead on the lawn, cruelly slashed with Mau Mau knives. Gray Leakey was nowhere to be found...