Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...world where much is unknowable, Frost takes refuge in what is knowable, matter-of-fact and practical. "It's knowing what to do with things that counts." One of his favorite books is Robinson Crusoe : "I never tire of being shown how the limited can make snug in the limit less." For himself, Frost asks a wall against intrusion of knowledge, or people, a fence "between too much and me." What is beyond those fences, says Frost, is no man's business. It is "the canyon of Ceasing to Question What Doesn't Concern...
...suave old former Secretary of State has a much younger wife who seeks her freedom-to marry (as he learns without her telling him) a Senator her own age. The Secretary's bland if not too convincing strategy is to make the Senator lose ground politically by being a bachelor, and then hurry him into a marriage-in-name-only with a seemingly plain and simple schoolteacher. In a trice, of course, the bride grows wildly attractive and wonderfully astute. This state of affairs, even when christened Affairs of State, can have but one outcome...
...root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good as a hack...
...take it or leave it alone." However, if the cause of the compulsion to drink can be tracked down, it can often be rooted out by mental treatment. In Anderson's case, the unquenchable thirst was the result of an unquenchable ambition to "get ahead" and "make something of himself," always in competition with his successful, overshadowing father...
...merger would certainly be good for both lines, since Delta's big load of tourist traffic to Florida comes in the winter, and Northeast has its tourist load in the summer. Said Northeast's Gardner: "If the merger goes through, there'll be a way to make the horses work all the time instead of leaving them in the stable to eat up the profits." Furthermore, Delta, which lost eight of its top men in a 1947 crasb, would have its management bolstered; the new combination would be bossed by Woolman with the help of Gardner...