Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time something like a new-angled triangle, and Paul Kelly as the husband, Uta Hagen as the wife and Steven Hill as the director give it tingle and intensity wherever possible. But the real story, which Odets walks up to and then quickly away from, is a compact little tragedy of misunderstanding. It is the story of a woman whose husband is killing himself and dragging her with him and who, for a final indignity, is accused of his murder. It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture-let alone the director's sudden lovemaking...
Three lectures which General Lucius D. Clay delivered here last year have been published in a compact 5 by 61/2 inch book. Clay's report, and it is a report rather than an analysis, is the story of Germany from 1945 to 1950 and is an outline as sparse as the format. The reader will look in vain for historical data in "Germany and the Fight for Freedom." Clay is content in this book to present a rationale of the general policy which he administered and played a large role in formulating...
...their script Jerry Wald and Michael Curtiz, producer and director respectively, have adapted an incident from Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not." They have sacrificed nothing in the transition: the dialogue retains all of Hemingway's sharpness, and his simple, compact plot is still as clear and as interesting as ever...
...senior Senator, Styles Bridges, who is no friend of Tobey's. Last November, Republican Powell announced he was out to beat Tobey. He set up campaign headquarters in the pantry of his Hampton Falls home. He had the encouragement and the help of Styles Bridges' compact New Hampshire political organization...
Fiery Tipple. The history of the family of Lord Littlehampton's friend, Poet Jeremy Tipple, is also a compact history of British literary taste. It ends on a magnificently acid note with an account of the devoted leftist, Bill Tipple, a conscientious objector in the late war until the German invasion of Russia jolted him into joining the Drayneflete section of the National Fire Service. Bill Tipple is currently organizing secretary of the World Congress of International Poets in Defense of Peace...