Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Iskander Mirza appears to favor the separate-ballot system because it would automatically ensure a Moslem majority in the government, which, in turn, would automatically ensure his stay in office. His opponents believe the separate ballot will divide the nation permanently into bitter religious factions and lead inevitably to its dissolution. Two months ago Mirza named Moslem League Leader Ismail Chundrigar as Pakistan's sixth Prime Minister, succeeding bouncy Hussein S. Suhrawardy (TIME, Oct. 28). But last week Pakistan's Republican Party rebelled against Chundrigar's proposal for separate-ballot elections, and withdrew its support...
Brecht's slightly sophistic purpose is to convey the irony of his bitter and didactic fables by emphasizing the unreality of the stage. This he does by dispensing as much as possible with stage settings, by interjecting straight-forward moral statements directly to the audience. In The Three-Penny Opera he went so far as to have a lettered scroll unrolled at each scene. He was greatly influenced by Oriental drama and from it adopts the idea of using masks, which give the characters a certain archetypal quality. He also abandons the proscenium curtain, thus adopting from the Orient...
...week's Vanguard explosion was blamed officially on "loss of thrust," there was no lack of thrusts at the U.S. Newspapers from Mexico City to Moscow, and at home as well, dubbed the dud a stallnik, latenik, flopnik, pfftnik, goofnik. For other press comment, ranging from derision to bitter disappointment, see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES...
...from which most of Colombia's recent political misery grew. A split among the Liberals let the minority-choice Conservative candidate win. Four years later, panicky Conservative leaders closed Congress, put Colombia under a state of siege, imposed their most forceful caudillo, Laureano Gómez, as President. Bitter interparty rural fighting, in which 20,000 died, finally led to a military dictatorship under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Modest, brainy Alberto Lleras, meanwhile, moved to Washington and a prestigious appointment as Secretary General of the Organization of American States...
...Hollywood, Tony looks fine. His latest picture: Paramount's The Tin Star. Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year-The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet. Two earlier Perkins films are still packing them in: Fear Strikes Out, the story of Red Sox Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, and Friendly Persuasion, made with his good friend and sometime mentor, Gary Cooper...