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...whole thing points to an obvious British-and-French inspired pretext for snatching Suez. Even President Eisenhower seems not to be taken in, which reveals how bald the scheme is. It amounts to the most anachronistic type of diplomacy running--the old gun-boat grab, and an inordinantly blatant specimen at that...
...once and for all that Bridey Murphy is an intellectual in its first production of the year. The Lady and Her Sources, which concerns the biography of a very alive pretty young girl who has been dead for 100 years, finally asserts the Poets' penchant for clear thinking. The Bald Soprano, a farce, also got hilarious reviews. Today...
...curious combination of comedies is the new presentation at the Poet's Theater. Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano is almost pure farce, while The Lady and Her Sources, by the Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, is a sharply etched satire on professors and pedantry...
...Bald Soprano contrasts vividly with The Lady and Her Sources. Where Salinas had been ironic, Eugene Ionesco is abstruse, absurd, and abnormous. His "Anti-play" makes Waiting for Godot look pale and logical. Lines follow each other without connection, characters change identities, and the humor is always mixed with bewilderment. When there is logic, it is carried to such an extreme that it becomes ridiculous. Yet, every so often Ionesco shows us a glimmering of reality that other writers seldom uncover. InThe Bald Soprano the characters seem to say whatever comes to their minds--momentary antagonisms, sexual impulses, errant thoughts...
...Egypt's mood on the Suez question, hard or malleable? Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, whose ability as a diplomat is best described by the fact that he has held top jobs under both King Farouk and President Nasser, leaned over the horseshoe table and started to talk. First, bald Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users of the canal." When the foreign ministers around the table heard...