Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That pleased the Dutch. Yet the strongest sentimental and political ties could not alter the economic plight of the colony which they got from the British in 1667 in a rough exchange for Manhattan. Its once-rich sugar plantations are nearly ruined; most of its Negroes would rather starve in Paramaribo than work in the fields. Only the rice-raising Javanese and East Indians, imported as indentured labor in the 19th Century, have made a go of it in the coastal swamps; they now number nearly half the colony's 208,000 population...
Printed on the program at all such revues as this is a statement that the producer can alter the sequence and quantity of the acts at each performance in his attempt to weed out the least successful and achieve the best balance. Even though this does entail much furious program flurrying the patron curious enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley...