Word: ado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group will give "Othello," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "Measure for Measure" after "Henry the Fourth, Part I." Each play will run two weeks...
...hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference at which the West could trade German rearmament for German reunification-assuming that the Russians might be so minded. He made much ado about "automatic consequences," suggesting casuistically that a vote in the West German Bundestag for rearmament would "automatically" condemn 18 million East Germans to perpetual Soviet tyranny...
...Ado about Dialectics. On the surface, the SPD seems rich, powerful and united. It has a distinguished history of resistance to oppression (both Bismarck and Hitler outlawed it and jailed its leaders). In the 1953 general election, the SPD won close to 8,000,000 votes (28.8% of the total); it has 600,000 dues-paying members and the powerful support of the Trade Union Federation (membership: 6,000,000). But since Schumacher died, the SPD has been bankrupt of ideas and of the men and the drive to apply them. It opposes out of habit, for the sake...
Founded in 1869 by a Prussian (August Bebel) and a Hessian pacifist (Wilhelm Liebknecht), the SPD is still doctrinally Marxist, making much ado about dialectics, red flags and the greeting "comrade." The Socialists say they are pro-Western, but they oppose German membership in the West European Union; they are stoutly antiCommunist, yet they line up on Moscow's side in its fight against the Paris accords. At a time when West Germany, and most, though not all, of its workers are enjoying unprecedented prosperity, the SPD still tends to couch its cries for social justice in obsolete Marxist...
...them afraid, keep them horrified. His craziest fan, Lady Caroline Lamb (TIME, Oct. 11), fell dramatically in love with him. When she cooed, "Should you like to see me waltz with any man but yourself?", he replied that "he should have no objection whatever, upon which with no more ado the fair Lady whips a knife into her own side." Fortunately, observes a cynical onlooker: "Venus . . . interposed in the shape of a pair of stays, so that the blow was by no means fatal...