Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mystery of the attractive protagonist, Emilia Marty, carries you over the rather weak ending of the first act into a second act that is logically and dramatically satisfying. Out of the shadow of the bare stage the characters move into the light which surrounds the world-weary opera singer. She, herself, is removed from reality by the dramatist, but these men and women who come into contact with her are very real. Capek projects them with a tenuous sort of power, following up pathos or amusement with a modern chord of dissonance which startles, arrests, and then intrigues the imagination...
...Crimson nine, particularly the pitchers, proved to be lavish entertainers Saturday by presenting their Cornell visitors with an 11 to 1 victory and displaying for their benefit, all sorts and varieties of baseball, mostly poor. Weak pitching, slovenly fielding, and ineffectual batting combined in the most dismal showing of the season...
This week will see concentration on the doubles teams, which proved weak in yesterday's match. Ingraham and Pfaffman went down to defeat before Davies and Lowe. Cummings and Harington, however, defeated Friedman and Bishop 6-1, 13-11. The third doubles match was omitted...
...Watson of Indiana, premier politician of the Republican Party, rose to make the first speech he has made in months. He tried to quiet the tumult by "explaining" the President's letter. It was not directed at the Senate, but at Mr. Pinchot, said he. The explanation was weak and failed to explain...
...vote cast, will receive 356 seats-two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The remaining one-third, or 179 seats, are divided proportionally among the other parties. The effect will be to give the Government an overwhelming, homogenous majority, whose work will be fought by a weak and hopelessly divided opposition...