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Many Canadians applaud Irving for having created more jobs in New Brunswick than all of Canada's many official pump-priming projects. His critics counter that he got labor cheap and has kept it cheap, that he takes no part in community activities and does not even permit his workers to make payroll contributions to the United Fund-it costs too much time for his clerks to figure out the deductions. Irving has also shown a knack for breaking strikes in the past. But even those who would like to take K. C. Irving down a peg realize that...
...rest of the nation. But the reactions of a few belied the deep strain of callous self interest that resides not far below the city's civic league surface. An audience of 1800 packed the Dallas City Opera the evening after the assassination to to applaud Verdi's Masked Ball. Citizens held indignant meetings to decide what to do about ministers who issued malicious statements about the city. The school board fired--later rehired--the teacher who reported her student's applause at the news of the assassination. And a taxi driver admonished the Boston Herald's George Frazier...
Liturgical Change. Superficially, there was much to applaud about the council's second session. In a decisive straw vote that concluded a meandering debate on whether bishops shared ruling authority over the church with the Pope, the prelates overwhelmingly approved the democratic notion of collegiality. They narrowly voted to discuss the Virgin Mary in the schema on the church rather than as a separate item; giving special emphasis to Mary is a pet cause of the conservatives, but any major Marian pronouncement will disturb ecumenical discussion between the church and Protestants...
Like What He Is. Last summer he hired a yacht for a vacation cruise of Canadian waters. But he was bored. "Fish don't applaud," he explains. Applause is the only income he really cares about. He particularly enjoys it in the form, say, of the medal recently pinned on him by President Kennedy for his countless appearances before U.S. servicemen during and since World...
...play shows how prejudice, blind stupidity, and love of convention combine to kill an innocent young man, but it never lets the audience stop laughing. Even when the dead man rises, still wrapped in his shroud, to tell the audience it is going to hell, the viewers laugh and applaud--the threat comes in the form of a jingle. Behan fails to make his audience seem stupid; he merely demonstrates that a clever playwright can confuse his house...