Word: trappings
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...Jewish Hospital, walked out of his solitary cell in a Cairo prison. As a rabbi intoned Hebrew prayers, the executioner seized the white-faced surgeon, cuffed his hands in leather, bound his eyes in black cloth, led him into the death chamber, closed the door, and snapped the gallows trap. Half an hour later, 26-year-old Samuel Azar, a teacher, walked the same path of no return, and the ancient and endless quarrels of the Middle East were washed with the fresh blood...
...keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees the satin-lined trap as clearly as anyone, refused the Durward part after reading the script. "All the men can duel and fight, but all I'd do would be to wear 35 different costumes, look pretty and frightened. There are eight people chasing me: the old man, robbers, the head gypsy and Durward...
...week's end, President Eisenhower, who does not intend to pay blackmail for American prisoners, called on the nation for patience. "We must have faith in the community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist trap, and through impetuous words or deed endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen . . . We must support the U.N. in its efforts so long as those efforts hold out any promise of success...
...storytelling, moreover, The Flowering Peach runs aground even before the rains have ceased. The characters' little habits become drearily habitual; the philosophizings employ too many and too unmagical words; the squabbles merely repeat themselves. Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
Thought of Revenge. At long last, Joe stood politically alone. A man who will let his temper trap him into such a political debacle can hardly be expected to lead a serious third-party movement. Between now and 1956, McCarthy may get angry enough to run for President-not because he wants the job, but because he might see such a move as revenge. But even his third-party nuisance value is doubtful. The hard core of McCarthy's following-the group that not even Joe can drive away-probably contains as many Democrats as Republicans; a McCarthy candidacy...