Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marines, who went in as early as 1910 to pacify the country, finally cleared out for good in 1933. Three years later, Somoza took over. Lindberg stayed on as his collector of customs and Nicaragua's credit strengthened steadily. Lindberg got $10,000 a year, living expenses, one of the best houses in Managua, and two months' vacation in the U.S. each year. No man to throw his money around, the customs collector skipped the dictator's all-night poker parties. But in 1944, when a sit-down strike of businessmen threatened Somoza's power, Lindberg...
...Giraudoux. The obvious theater qualities which The Enchanted lacks are richly offset by the rare ones it has. It is rather a shame that the production has just the earthiness needed by the play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...
...hawk and too high for a buzzard: it lacks the proper seriousness of a clinical study, the proper tingle of a thriller. It is not merely that the piece is too slow-moving. The Man depresses instead of exhilarates, sets its audience longing for good wholesome maniacs and fine fancy killers...
...Good melodrama, like good farce, has its nonrealistic rules; it lowers actuality to heighten effect. The Man violates the rules. Once criminality is portrayed as a kind of malignant disease, it is hardly better than cancer as a theme for entertainment...
...just often enough to accentuate its general dullness. It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash. It is also a mechanical show; it behaves as though the right proportion of songs, skits and dance numbers were just as good as the right kind...