Word: voguish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voguish term "missile gap" unfortunately seems an accurate summary of our position compared to the Soviets'. According to our Secretary of Defense, Neil McElroy, there is little need to worry; we are adequately supplied with the latest weapons. But the Soviets claim they are already mass producing ICBM's; Senator Stuart Symington has introduced figures which reveal a large Soviet lead; Werner von Braun reports that we are three years behind the Russians in developing our missiles, and intelligence estimates themselves show that the United States is soon going to fall well behind the U.S.S.R. in its missile arsenal...
Instead of shrinking from the play's preposterous involvements and broadly comic scenes. Director Guthrie and his cast seize them, hug them, and waltz them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which...