Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles asserted yesterday that the Western powers will act with unity and firmness to defend West Berlin against Communist threats...
...occupation forces. She reveals herself to him and he implores her to give up her collaboration and return to the German side and the rationality of her past life. She cannot forsake the dying men on the other side of the river, but declares that after this last act of merciful contrition towards the unattainable standard of humaneness, she will return. It is a tragic attempt at a moral compromise--her own conciliation of the universal conscience--it races to its unavoidable conclusion as, delivering the drugs, she is caught in a cross-fire on the bridge...
...Methodist bishops also pointed out that the emergency under which the about-to-expire Selective Service Act was made law in 1940 "has long since ceased to exist," and recommended "a careful re-study before taking any measures to enact a universal draft law, which seems to be unnecessary as well as ineffective...
...good in the show and cushions what is not. It is what lends lure to Robert Dhery's unbrilliant compere patter, appealingness to Pierre Olaf's pranks. It adds something human and wistful to the calisthenic comedy of the high point of the evening. This first-act finale, in which four monks make jubilant Maypole madness of four bell ropes, becomes-even as it is being laughed over-one of the tell-the-grandchildren stage memories of a lifetime...
...dictum that "there are no second acts in American lives" was true at least of the man who wrote it, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The dazzled darling of the champagne revels of the '20s woke to the hungover desolation of the '30s. He found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across...