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...chimpanzees that follow. They pout. They bicycle. They smoke. They applaud themselves. I have nothing against chimpanzees--they are certainly more amusing than their glowing trainer--but they belong to jungles, zoos, or classrooms. On stage, although they fit into the vaudeville world neatly, they merely prove that run-of-the-mill vaudeville deserves to be left in its grave...
...vague and indefinable way I am irritated by your remarks about weekly papers, probably because we were not included. I don't suggest you applaud the Enterprise's editorial gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform...
...ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain. Because of the curious liaison Dior has wrought between the shrewd operators of Seventh Avenue and the damask-hung salons off the Champs Elyseées, U.S. women may deplore or applaud the plump little man from Normandy, but they cannot ignore him. The woman has not yet been born who, shopping for a new dress, asks for "something just like what I have on"-and men would not like it if she did. Few women have the social assurance to trust their own taste completely. Dior...
...tenure in the front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner for the opposition in the locust years since 1951, he has made constant use of his mastery of repartee in Parliament (as well as on the stage of Sanders...
Each week more and more TIME-readers write to the editors to applaud, lambaste or argue about stories in the magazine. Some offer additional information out of their own experiences. Others choose TIME'S Letters column as a forum to air their own views on world events and figures. Whatever the approach, their sprightly and often spirited commentaries from every corner of the earth have made TIME'S Letters columns one of the best-read international forums in the world...