Word: baba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorbonne-educated Minister of Guidance (Propaganda), a longtime Kubah colleague, worked with the Nazis during World War II. The Finance Minister, a graduate of the London School of Economics during Harold Laski's heyday, wants to nationalize the oil wells. The Minister of Public Works and Communications (Baba Ali), considered friendly to Americans, went to Columbia University...
...consulted, says Jaffe, "on many things that don't really involve her." Of the 16 shows in the $3,200,000 series, she wants to star in three-Rapunzel, Hiawatha, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-and narrate the others (Rip Van Winkle, Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba, etc.,). But to Shirley, the best feature of her Storybook is that most of it is filmed, freeing her for civic and housewifely chores around Atherton, Calif. (25 miles south of San Francisco), where she leads the life of a wealthy California mother...
Baring his heart, the tenor sang, "Laga baba lagaga banuna." Moved, the soprano tenderly replied, "O gaga o gaga." Her expression of love reduced the tenor to turtledove coos: "Oc curru curru curru curru curru...
What with Baba trying to be Chinese in Vermont, and Rennie struggling to forget his ancestral Chinese quarter, Mrs. MacLeod is having quite a time of it. In a letter from Peking, husband Gerald writes that he loves her and all that, but, since the Communists dislike his non-Sinic connections, he is obliged to take another wife. The new Chinese wife also writes to Vermont ("Dear Elder Sister . . ."). Throughout, Mrs. MacLeod proves to be so quilted in sensibility as to resemble a carnivorous tea cosy...
...that instant the reader feels a secret sympathy for Gerald's decision to take his chances with the Reds: better Mao than Mom. By story's end, Mom buries Baba (forgetting that Father is quite as stately a name as Mother), and is left palpitating on a significantly empty stage...