Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal was unveiled, with a certain unconscious appropriateness, on April 1, and it actually amounted to this: 1) the U.S. would join a Kremlin-organized coalition conceived with the ultimate aim of pushing the U.S. out of Europe, while 2) Russia would contribute armed forces and help plot the strategy of the grand Western alliance that was created only to stand off the armed forces of Russia...
...were charged with a plot "to overthrow the government [and] incite seditious strikes," but actually the heart of their offense was that they were Basques. In May 1951, when labor unrest broke out in Spain, Vitoria's 5,000 workers stayed quietly at home for five days. They did not riot in the streets or break windows, as some in other places had done. The trouble had not even started in Basque country, but in Catalan Barcelona. But when the Madrid authorities began looking for scapegoats, their angry eyes fell on Vitoria, where there are plenty of men with...
Clean-Scrubbed Kansas. His opening curtain rose on a prairie-farmyard scene. His characters were plain, salt-of-the-earth folk: a grandfather (Basso Normaiv Treigle), a mother (Contralto Jean Hand-zlik), daughter Laurie (Soprano Rosemary Carlos) and a pair of drifting farmhands. The plot, such as it was, moved from Laurie's high-school pregraduation party through a brief, unrealistic courtship ("I'd like to have a wife for a while," sang one of the drifters), and ended on a symbolic note by sending the girl off in search of her future...
...minor weakness of King of Hearts is that its cracks come with a slightly too metallic and rat-tat-tat regularity. The more serious weakness is that what little story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...
...that King of Hearts is a hit, Playwright Kerr and Director Kerr are relieved, even though Critic Kerr's colleagues were almost as unanimous with their criticism ("weak plot") as with their praise. Kerr, a quiet-spoken man, feels it will take some time before he can be objective, as a critic, about the play he directed. "Right now," he says, "I'm being a deliberate schizophrenic." Jean is more exuberant. "Walter," she says fondly, "is just naturally a lump...