Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the cast is rendered ineffective, by the script and the direction, both handled by Steve Salomon. The original French short story by Prosper Merime is difficult enough to believe, but Salomon added to this original fault by making much of the dialogue painfully simple, and by overworking both the theme and meanings through constant narration...
Barring a certain garrulity, Playwright Rattigan has done his full share-in characterization and atmosphere, in sharp touches and emotional scenes-to make such stunt-writing prosper. Indeed, his vivid theater sense is a little disastrously triumphant. There are times when the first drama seems more than arrant make-believe, seems concerned with truth. Unfortunately, Playwright Rattigan has never had the courage of his conceptions, and here-as in The Deep Blue Sea-he wobbles into a miserable happy ending. And in the second play, where he might seem to be protesting against much that is amiss in English life...
...mostly yeast in the vat of the future. The Cabinet, Macmillan emphasized, "has not yet arrived at a conclusion on this vital matter." There were strong reasons for the government's hesitation. British entry into a European free-trade area would involve painful adjustments. While some factories would prosper and expand, others would go out of business-a prospect to send cold chills down the spine of many a British industrialist. Some labor leaders were sure to make a fist at the very suggestion of even temporary disruptions of employment...
...expected that Russia, with its veto power, would let the Security Council take any action, either to undo or punish Nasser's seizure. The U.S. was surprised at the timing, but acquiesced. Said Dulles: "This is an interdependent world, and you cannot thrive and prosper if you deny the principle of interdependence." Taking the case to the U.N. was another way of airing the West's concern, of impressing the world with its urgency and of seeking a settlement by means rooted not in the jungle...
General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Prosper's Old Mother, starring Ethel Barrymore, Ronald Reagan...