Word: whether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nelson R., for instance. A friend of his told Henry Luce's national picture magazine last year that "Nelson has been running for President since he was six years old." Nelson R. has announced that by January 6th he will decide whether he is a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President...
...distributor said the Board's ruling was "prejudiced" and based on "capricious thinking"; he questioned whether the board, which has permitted operation of these machines for the past ten years, should be arbitrary merely because it has the right. The Licensing Board's decision is final and not subject to City Council or City Manager approval...
...standing still in Iraq, in uneasy tension between the Communists and the conservatives. Though oil flowing to Western markets still brings Iraq royalties at the rate of $230 million a year, Kassem's 16-month-old revolution has done little to better the Iraqis' lot. Farmers, unsure whether the government will go through with land reform, have cut back on their planting. Eggs have tripled in price, rice costs 50% more, and wheat has become so scarce that authorities had to import 45,000 tons from Turkey two months ago to meet a bread shortage...
...father's estate, a beautiful gypsy maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...
...mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge has further tossed comedy bits involving theater types and neighbor boys, and a farcical bed-hopping drunk scene. As a result, mother and son never get deeply probed, never really come to grips. Something essential, whether cumulative small detail or a big scene, is missing. A climactic moment, such as the mother's refusing her son's deeply felt anniversary gift, half-sacrifices character to plot. The silver cord does not really bind Inge's story...