Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clapping fees remain surprisingly low -$5 to $7 a night - because the directors alone are paid, while subordinates clap merely for admission. A certain amount of applause comes free. "Naturally, when an artist pays, we feel like applauding stronger," says Carrara, "but even if he doesn't pay, we still applaud because it is our duty to keep up the atmosphere and spirit of the performance." Most Italian singers approve of the claque, but as a general rule other European singers and Americans resent it. Soprano Leontyne Price has even paid the claque not to applaud...
...patriotic crusade," cried Mexico City's Ultimas Noticias, and even some sections of the Yankee-baiting press changed their tone. In Buenos Aires, a powerful, anti-Yankee Peronista leader was forced to admit: "After Bogotá's clear and courageous speech, there is nothing to do but applaud and support Kennedy and his alianza...
...Seasons, a superb testimonial to the seldom-realized potential of the individual conscience. With a kind of weary magnificence, Scofield sinks himself in the part, studiously underplays it, and somehow displays the inner mind of a man destined for sainthood. Not content just to applaud, much of the audience stands and noisily shouts its appreciation for his movingly perfect performance. Appearing in the U.S. for the first time, Scofield was preceded by a reputation hard to live up to. From Kenneth Tynan to Richard Burton, British critics and actors place him among the contemporary greats, ranking him with Olivier...
Party Hack. Things were even stickier in Red China, where the leadership continues to reminisce fondly about Stalin and to applaud Albania's nose-thumbing of Khrushchev. By ironic coincidence, last week was also the 20th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party, which provided occasion for counterfire. Khrushchev may have accused the Albanian Reds of such terrorism that "even pregnant women are shot," but Peking sent congratulations to Tirana, praised the "correct leadership" of Albanian Boss Enver Hoxha, and crooned that the Chinese people admire the Albanian people "from the bottom of their hearts...
Unless you propose to lose the cold war of ideas by default, some kind of national information program seems essential. While I applaud your undergraduate seal to lash out at evil, may I suggest that you might achieve more lasting good if you thought through your ideas a bit more. Cavilling criticism, uninformed although modish, is no substitute for hard and informed thinking in international affairs. The problems faced by USIA should, I feel, be your concern. They include building a large staff of officers trained in their own and their host country's culture, language, history, politics, and information...