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...still flying supplies to Kong Le and reportedly a few trained Viet Minh cadres as well. The Laotians still could not capture any North Vietnamese invaders, but they rounded up enough Communist-supplied arms to put on an impressive show in Vientiane for U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown. Some shells bore Chinese markings. But, ironically, most of the display could be identified as U.S.-made munitions, allegedly captured by the Viet Minh from the French at Dienbienphu...
...dream, everything seemed to be moving at half speed. But slowly, the Congo's balance was tipping toward the forces that bore the label of reckless Patrice Lumumba, though he was still in Colonel Joseph Mobutu's jail. If Lumumba won, the world could thank the ceaseless efforts of Moscow and Cairo and Accra. The U.N. itself, under the myriad pressures of its diverse membership, stood by in confusion...
...school as a whole had had its day. New styles were needed, and most of them had to be borrowed. Poussin developed his meticulous classicism in Rome, where he worked most of his life. Philippe de Champaigne moved to Paris from his native Flanders, and a school of naturalists bore the stamp of the Italian Caravaggio. But what the French borrowed they made their own. Under Henri IV (who ruled from 1589 to 1610) and Louis XIII (1610-43), France's artists were free spirits, and they used their freedom well...
Actually it is the setup that pulls the show down, for it makes vice as insipid as virtue. Constantly recalling Guys and Dolls, Do Re Mi so little equals it that where the book of Guys was a blessing, Do's is a bore. And whether from an effort to even things up, or merely by contrast, the music at times seems fiendishly loud, the dancing fiendishly frenzied...
Well, if the two weeks aren't to be a total loss, Wellington Frobisher thought to himself, I suppose one must make an effort. Home in Muncie, Indiana, on Christmas vacation from Harvard, Wellington was finding things a frightful bore. Funny, he never noticed how drab the local environs were before he went away to Harvard, but now they were unbearable. Nobody knew or cared about the New Frontier, or Existentialism, or anything...