Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Left-wing Gaullists and many Socialists also voted yes, but they reject Algerian integration and ask for a negotiated settlement. Nevertheless many of those (like Pierre Mendes-France) who have pressed for such a settlement have insisted on voting no, in order to protest against the coup d' Alger of May 13 and against the spirit of the Constitution, which they consider insufficiently democratic. They remain faithful to the old Republican tradition which associates democracy only with a sovereign Parliament...
...ordinary Negro, mind you. He was a black Horatio Alger, who started out totin' them bales and wound up president of a big insurance company. What with that and the fact that the girl looks just as white as he does, the lieutenant lets his good instincts prevail. "A lot of people," he remarks with a superior air, "need somebody to look down...
...Shame to the Cause." Before his arrest, without a warrant, Alleg had been hiding out for months to escape internment after the banning of Alger Républicain, the Communist daily that he edited 1950-55. He wrote The Question four months after he was tortured, managed to smuggle it out of the civil prison in Algiers where he is still held on the charge of "endangering the safety of the State...
...Aladdin, a sort of Horatio Alger story smothered in Oriental opulence, had everything except taste. There were fire-eaters, elephants and Chinese superbazaars, and special effects that must have taken all of Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions...
Congressman Alger's view, of the horizon may have been unduly clouded, but few of his colleagues who will move up to Capitol Hill for the opening of Congress next week were much more optimistic about the prospects. They are largely the same men who marched down the Hill only four months ago, but they are coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat...