Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have any reason for getting in touch with us beyond recording a change of address now and then or writing an occasional letter-to-the-editor. Recently it occurred to us that we knew very little about these very special readers-and we ought to know a great deal about any group which had so much faith in the then unproved TIME idea that it would accept such an offer...
...frequently asked," he began, " 'Has the State Department got an Asia policy?' And it seems to me that that discloses such a depth of ignorance that it is very hard to begin to deal with it. The peoples of Asia are so incredibly diverse and their problems are so incredibly diverse that how could anyone, even the most utter charlatan, believe that he had a uniform policy which would deal with all of them...
...stoppages, slowdowns, shakedowns. Imberman tells of a Detroit union head who went through weeks of nerve-snapping contract negotiations with the sour knowledge that his daughter had just been forced out of her sorority because her father was a labor leader. Says Imberman: "The impotence of the father to deal with such a situation is not unrelated to the fury with which he pursues his strike ends...
Stalag-Luft III, a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied airmen in Silesia, was a good deal like all the others in 1943. The prisoners spent most of their waking hours planning escapes and digging tunnels; with the help of detection devices the camp guards found the tunnels and headed off the escapes almost every time.* But one spring day Prisoner John Clinton watched a sheet of newspaper hop the camp fence in a gust of wind and got an idea for an escape plan that worked...
...Troilus and Cressida" is not simple dramatic material. Although it contains some of Shakespeare's finest lines, the play is talky and often lacking in action; a good deal of judicious cutting was necessary. (The new production has been cut even further.) A second difficulty is that the story of Troilus and Cressida, grafted onto the traditional Homeric legend, makes the plot disjointed and confused. The ending is inconclusive, and there seem to be no outstanding characters. It is a tribute to Peter Temple's direction and to the talents of the east that the Brattle Theater succeeded in making...