Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarship Aid Uncertain...
Vincent J. Donehue's direction also falters in the first act when the performance leaves it uncertain who is the central character. Bellamy is offstage for most of the last two scenes, and the play may seem to be about Louis Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sara Delano Roosevelt...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
...Drop of a Hat (Michael Flanders and Donald Swann; Angel). An irreverent, off-key assault on an assortment of sacred cows by the two-man cast of a witty London revue. They warble their uncertain, Oxford-accented way through a series of wandering digressions on the London bus system (A Transport of Delight), the morals of the clubman (Madeira, M'Dear?), the woes of the hi-fi fan ("What do you get? Flutter on your bottom"). They do their best work, Flanders howls, in a snug little house in "an amusing mews," where...
...Jemmy Hirst was a wealthy, mid-19th century ex-tanner who developed an un-British distaste for the horse "excepting on the racecourse." Hippophobe Hirst went shooting mounted on a massive bull of "uncertain temper," and used in place of pointers "a crowd of vivacious and sagacious pigs, all of whom answered to their names." In the Hirst living room the conversation piece was a large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight...