Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French out of strong measures, and then, as they saw it, reneged on his implied promise to pay for an economic boycott of the canal?leaving Nasser triumphant and unpunished...
...later Ike took the train to New York for short motorcades through Manhattan and a triumphant evening appearance (20,000 inside, 10,000 outside) in Madison Square Garden, two days after Adlai Stevenson. Neat in blue worsted suit, Ike marched into the Garden to an ear-shattering welcome touched off less by the mawkish maneuvers of such professional crowd churners as Walter Winchell and Fred Waring than by the President's own grin and greeting. Ike plugged heartily for Republican Senatorial Candidates Jacob Javits of New York and Prescott Bush of Connecticut, then proudly reviewed G.O.P. accomplishmients during...
Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...sometimes graceful, but, as with his Richard, never simple enough, and, like too many other Romeos, never real. For all its verbal magic the play itself is far from a dramatic blessing. It is not among Shakespeare's true tragedies, but only his Tragedy of Errors; the triumphant embodiment of Romeo and Juliet is less Shakespeare's play than Berlioz' music...
Barring a certain garrulity, Playwright Rattigan has done his full share-in characterization and atmosphere, in sharp touches and emotional scenes-to make such stunt-writing prosper. Indeed, his vivid theater sense is a little disastrously triumphant. There are times when the first drama seems more than arrant make-believe, seems concerned with truth. Unfortunately, Playwright Rattigan has never had the courage of his conceptions, and here-as in The Deep Blue Sea-he wobbles into a miserable happy ending. And in the second play, where he might seem to be protesting against much that is amiss in English life...