Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some, however, do not. And, furthermore, vicious and nearly unrelieved horror is extremely hard to portray on a bright stage so close to the audience as is Eliot's. Within this framework of difficulties, however, the production is admirable. The director, Roger Graef, treats horror boldly and hardly ever sacrifices his characters to a mere spectacular surface. Although his first act is occasionally loose, his later treatment is strong. The brilliantly ironic scene in which the vicious empress and her two sons visit Titus disguised as Revenge, Rape, and Murder is directed superbly. Lit in dim red and blue, which...
...Algerian nation cannot accept any solution that does not imply as a primary condition the recognition of its independence." Said Bourguiba: "We just have to end this vicious circle." Added a Moroccan minister: "It's fine to know how to throw a grenade, but you have to know where and when to throw it." With the aid of the Moroccans, whip-sharp Premier Bourguiba began working on a formula of self-determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans...
There is, of course, another alternative. Said a top Havana businessman last week: "Violence breeds violence, and events are in a vicious circle. The government should gather its courage and announce an honest election...
...recent years: 1) from 1952 through 1955 the Government's cost-of-living index held steady only because an increase in the price of manufactured goods was balanced by a decrease in food prices; 2) today the main inflationary factor in the economy is a vicious circle in which big unions keep pushing up wages and big corporations keep pushing up prices...
...rebellious resistance" to immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills-and city officials are not even sure...