Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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To these tools, the U.S. Army Medical Service added an important contribution. The Pentagon this week announced development of a suitcase-sized, portable X-ray unit that weighs only 85 Ibs. (v. ordinary half-ton hospital X-ray machines) and operates at such high speed that it will not blur...
All the Way Home (by Tad Mosel) reshapes for the stage the late James Agee's extraordinary Pulitzer prizewinner, A Death in the Family. The undertaking could not but be hazardous: beyond the tact that Agee's novel was not quite finished and not quite a novel, what...
In this chronicle of family life in Knoxville, Tenn. in 1915, the very theme in the end is family life: husband, wife, small son in-laws, generations, dissimilar family backgrounds, differences over religion conflicts due to temperament, conjugal love, ultimate human separateness. What shifts various stresses, what tightens and loosens...
There are things in All the Way Home that seem quite wrong. Jay's brother looms too large, performs too loud; the play is far too long in ending and then ends badly. Other things in the play seem insufficient and even flat: scenes lack outward drama without displaying...
HISTORICALLY, the reigning princes ot Liechtenstein have chosen to live outside that hereditary principality, usually in their luxurious Austrian palaces Liechtenstein offers a prince neither size (it is one-seventeenth the size of Rhode Island, has only 16,000 people) nor scope. Switzerland, its western neighbor handles posts, customs and...