Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier work, Heartbreak House is not a well-made, coherent play. With a gay abandon reminiscent of Chekhov, the characters wander on and off stage, chattering seeming irrelevancies (which are resolved in the final act when the allegory becomes clear), but never contributing to the development of the plot...
...Czechoslovakia. A veteran of the Czech diplomatic service and a friend of Jan Masaryk, he quit his post as attache in Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...
...stories, on subjects which seem to be fashionable these days--the decaying South and oppressed Africa--have considerable merit. The first, Told About One Spring, by Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity...
...Idler Players have given life and zest to Claire Booth Luce's witty comedy, The Women. True, there is little originality in the plot which concerns woman's unceasing efforts to hold on to her husband. But an enthusiastic cast, headed by Sandi Rosman as Mary and Sheila Flaherty as Sylvia, has made it an amusing and, at times, very funny play...
There were 27 men in the plot but, until the night before the rising, only Batista knew who all of them were. He himself wrote out the master plan and orders, employing a kind of ecclesiastical code. If any outsider got a look at the plans, they must have read like an outline for a religious pageant. Each reference to an archbishop or a priest signified an individual; each "ceremony" a place to be captured. At the final night meeting, in a house not far from Havana's all-important Camp Columbia army base, the plotters swore an oath...