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...likes to think of himself as a practicing basic biologist, I applaud...
...followed the army insurrection of May 13. "Was fraternization organized at the outset?" he demanded rhetorically. "It seems fairly probable . . . But even if fraternization was organized at the beginning, the moment came when it ceased to be organized . . . We have seen on the television and movie screens more Moslems applaud General de Gaulle than there are fellaghas in the whole of Algeria...
...York Philharmonic, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin mortified the Philharmonic management by responding to applause with Bach encores, a rash defiance of the Philharmonic's staid traditions. After a third concert for another full house at Carnegie Hall last week, both audience and some orchestra players mischievously sought to applaud Menuhin into another encore. Duly warned to stick rigidly to the program, Menuhin smiled and announced: "I am not allowed . . ." Applause broke out again. Finally, Violinist Menuhin made a little speech: "I am not at all sure you are allowed to applaud either! [Snickers from the gallery.] But I am sure...
...spontaneity of the line made most of the audience either laugh or applaud. And with good reason. The triumph of Chayefsky realism lives in her response. The author's lines and scenes are so full of recognizable truths, of familiar details, of realism, that the audience has no trouble at all entering his play. This is an impressive skill. I wonder, though, whether the realism and the truths are not mostly too small to make powerful theater...
Dreams into Reality. In the nation's reaction to those chilling beeps the impulse to applaud a mighty scientific achievement soon froze in the rigors of the cold war. The Red satellite was a milestone in history, a giant step toward the conquest of interplanetary space. But it was also a Communist achievement with serious implications for the West that the Communists themselves made clear. Cold-war propaganda rang in the Russian announcement: "The present generation will witness how the freed and conscious labor of the people of the new socialist society turns even the most daring...