Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaking of markets, the Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography: "I was one of nine children. Five of them died in childhood because of a lack of enough to eat. Two were killed in the war. There is only my sister and myself left...
...Miami last week, U.S. Supervising Customs Agent Joseph A. Fortier reported as a matter of fact that the arms business is booming. Many of the arms are bought in Northern centers, such as Newark, New York and Chicago, but almost all of them are shipped through Miami. For lack of an adequate staff, says Fortier, four out of every five shipments got through...
William Roberts' set is imaginative and functional, though the shutter effect is very reminiscent of the projections used in the Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. In both costumes and lighting there is a lack of warmth and color, which seem so essential to an author as color-conscious as Williams...
...Prakash.) If the museums are "art-museums," on the other hand, a general policy of Indian-antiquities-for-the-Indians is followed, with the many excavation sites of India additionally becoming regional museums in time. Western art, on the other hand, is difficult to collect due to the (a) lack of encouragement which the ruling English gave to this sort of thing (b) high prices in today's ultra-competitive art market and (c) reluctance of the remaining Indian rajahs to part with their private collections. On this last obstacle Dr. Prakash commented: "The rajah will part first with...
Many critics have been quick to look down their pedantic noses at Shakespeare's Merry Wives. They decry its lack of psychologic or philosophic depth; they bemoan its coarse language; they complain that almost none of it is in verse. Indeed the play is prose, but not prosaic. And the critics blame Shakespeare for not producing what he never had the slightest intention of producing. There is evidence that Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with the character of Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV that she commanded the writing of a play about Falstaff in love...