Word: unrealness
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This is not to say that The Gospel Witch is monotonous, but that it demands too much both of audience and actors. Set in the Salem of 1692, its theme is the release of the tensions of an introverted Puritanism in the creation and destruction of an unreal danger. Specifically, it deals with a young girl's accusations of witchcraft against a strong minded farmer's wife, and the implications of the case for the community and the individuals involved. The subject is temptingly rich, and Mr. Phelps has not been able to resist over-entanglement in the moral coils...
...inside story, told by Sir Launcelot's brother Bors de Garis of the triangle formed by King Arthur, Queen Guenivere and the famed Knight of the Round Table. Author Roberts has the good taste to follow Sir Thomas Malory and Alfred Lord Tennyson in keeping the characters perfectly unreal and tucking the dalliance between the lines rather than between the sheets...
...indifference of the one, the despair of the other had one quality in common: a public unreadiness to hurry into new ventures. Moscow could not have wished for anything more. In this context, the scurryings of Western diplomats had an unreal, almost irrelevant...
East Germany's Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...
...private investment. As expansion becomes possible, they argue, new jobs will bring the economy, back toward the goal of full employment. The hitch lies in the present economic situation. Many Republicans, characterizing the current business downturn as a "rolling readjustment," feel that the fear of dwindling market is unreal and that businessmen will not be frightened out of making investments. But most analyses indicate a more serious economic situation. Inventory, employment, and output indexes have shown increasingly ominous signs; would-be investors tend to hold back...