Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force the militantly anti-Red Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then. He credited himself with telling the Socialists of the plot in time for them to thwart...
...would have his hands full one day last week. U.S. Senator Homer Capehart, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, a man who might influence future U.S. aid to needy Bolivia, was due in La Paz on a study trip. And police intelligence agents reported that a plot to overthrow the government, long simmering and long spied on by the cops, had been moved up to coincide with Capehart's visit...
...sneaking a corpse out of the U.S. delegate's apartment, the play rolls on like a tumbrel through scenes which seem to bore even the actors. Until the final scene's return to the plane of melodrama, the pace collapses completely. Without incisiveness, wit, or much relevance to the plot, the conversation rambles from the Korean War to freedom of the press to the merits of a Brahms piano concerto...
...occasionally, however, does The Prescott Proposals achieve any effect with these elements. The explanation lies in the authors' failure to make the committee scenes absorbing as theatre. In the first and last scenes, the international flavor of the play serves, as it should, to heighten the interest of the plot. The plot retreats, however, in the U.N. scenes and the play depends solely and vainly on the dramatic originality of a U.N. committee session on stage to retain the attention of the audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around...
...plot unfolds, more and more evidence of Commie propaganda is visible. The shire is on a five-year-plan to recover deer loses. But the climax comes in the blood purge at the end of the legend. Like Trotsky, Robin is found guilty of disloyalty to the state and is efficiently purged...