Word: framework
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...novel; produced by the Playwrights' Company) dramatizes, on the whole, very well. Not only does much of it prove dramatic on the stage, but the drama has been bought at a sense-making price. The play keeps faith with the book: the brushwork is necessarily broader, but the framework has been kept intact. It remains a vivid memento of the Moscow trials, a sharp probing of the Communist mind...
...There is, of course, the process of impeachment," the Tribune noted thoughtfully, testing a scalpel on its horny thumb. It thought that Truman's "present offers to send hundreds of thousands of American boys to their deaths in Europe . . . fall easily within the framework of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' " But the Trib was afraid that "impeachment, if started today, would fail for lack of Democratic votes." On the whole, it preferred a different course anyhow...
Despite these hesitancies, directed not against an increased rate of mobilization, but against all-out mobilization, the services were beginning to bolt together a stronger framework for defense. Last week the Pentagon...
There are other similarities. Both books use the same framework, the setting of a task to win the hand of a lovely princess. Both have all the paraphernalia of the fairy story: witches, wizzards, fabulous jewels. Both make liberal use of poetic devices such as alliteration, and have passages of metrical or semi-metrical prose. Both are humorous...
...questions sounded a little silly to most Americans, yet the first authoritative Republican voice to be heard gave the worriers cold comfort. Hardly had the ballots been counted before Ohio's Robert Taft, leading man of the G.O.P. comeback, talked as though he intended to take apart the framework of North Atlantic security and examine it piece by piece. "Can Europe really be defended? How many American soldiers will be required?" he asked. "There are many things on which I have to be convinced...