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...start off, the candidates must master a mock set of rules. In Arco's example of an artificial-language, plurals end in s, numerals must follow nouns and kirn, kima, kime, kimi mean who, whose, to whom, and whom. Candidates must then use the rules to count (bal is one, bals is ten, balsebal is eleven, etc.) and to conjugate verbs (binob, I am; binol, you are; binom, he is; binof, she is; binos, it is; binobs, we are; binols you are; binoms, they...
...trespasser was Angler Eisenhower: he was invited to fish the South Platte River on the ranch of a friend, Denver Banker Bal F. Swan...
...Truman Administration gave Israel, with but 1,500,000 people, $73 million, or 43% of all U.S. aid for the area ($168 million). Eight Arab states, with a population of 40 million, had to divide the other 57%. Arab states had hoped that the Eisenhower Administration would even the bal ance. Yet the new Administration's sched ule reportedly plans to give Israel 41% of the 1954 total. Are Eisenhower and Dulles only 2% more friendly than Truman and Acheson? The Arabs want to know...
...ancestor of Trio, Flesh and Fantasy is a splice of three separate stories. Trio, however, is a trilogy, Flesh and Fantasy an anthology. The only things these three tales have in common are a supernatural fizz and heavy-handed direction. Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) pioneered the splicing art, but he keeps fantasy firmly earthbound in this 1943 effort. Granted, the writing is usually abominable ("Remember the boatman's song at twilight at Amalfi, the scent of orange blossoms on the road to Damascus," etc., etc.), but the absence of a light touch accentuates triteness...
After Le Diable, Radiguet began to study the most famous of the French courtly novels, The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette (TIME, May 28, 1951), and was inspired to write Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. "A chaste love story"-he called it-"as shocking as the least chaste...