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...same note. Friends from Philadelphia gives a self-made man with culture gnawing at his pride the chance to score off his Ivy elitenik neighbors with a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild 1937. One of the best stories in the book, Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?, might draw a bravo from Marquand for its social surgery. At college, blueblooded Fred had got socially iffy Clayton into the best clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred...
...deep in many places, they included hundreds of Polish army troops, who, in a gesture unimaginable in any other Red nation, waved right along with the civilians. And as white-helmeted motorcycle cops slowly cleared a path for Nixon's car, the crowd kept up a steady roar: "Bravo, Americans! . . . We love Americans . . . Long live Nixon . . . Long live Eisenhower...
...through to Myslewicki Palace, where the Nixons were to stay, nearby windows and balconies were jammed, and at least a thousand members of the crowd managed to shove their way into the courtyard. And as Dick and Pat Nixon stood on the steps waving, the roaring chorus rose again: "Bravo, Americans...
Everyone concerned had worked zealously and overtime on this exciting community project. And the mounting of any show on schedule would have been an impressive achievement. But the fact that the opening performance provided a highly engrossing evening calls for a hearty "Bravo." This is not to say that the performance was perfect; the show was somewhat uneven, the cast had not been able yet to gauge the acoustics of the strange structure with a full audience in it, and much of the lighting was insecure. But it was far superior to what one could have expected under the circumstances...
...Bravo to you for exposing and unfrocking Segregationist Fulbright. He remained in Europe while the Little Rock episode raged, being so veddy, veddy busy bringing "democracy" overseas...