Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., Tenthouse Theater: Margaret Whiting and Gene Rayburn on the Gypsy caravan...
...scared for a moment. I thought you might put the whammy on me by liking my latest novel The Source [May 28]. You pooh-poohed South Pacific and it became a great hit. You ridiculed Hawaii and it was purchased by nearly 4,000,000 readers. You blasted Caravan and it stayed near the top of the lists for half a year. Please spell my name right in your Best Seller box in the long months ahead...
Imam Badr is showing far more political skill than before. His ragtag army is supplied with arms, munitions and money (heavy Maria Theresa thalers shipped in by camel caravan) from Saudi Arabia and British-administered South Arabia, neither of which wants Nasser as a near neighbor. The royalist radio last week skillfully tried to widen the split in republican ranks by promising amnesty to all nonroyalists once the Egyptians were withdrawn. Further, Imam Badr promised the people of Yemen a new form of government: "a constitutionally democratic system" ruled by a "national assembly elected by the people of Yemen...
...that preachy starting point, the film plunges into a peep show of questionable authenticity, poking its lenses through garden walls and desert shrubbery, suggesting much, proving little. The most chillingly persuasive sequences show the whipping of African natives who are for sale to Arab herdsmen, a raid on a caravan smuggling enslaved children from Chad to Saudi Arabia. Later a trader inspects a naked native woman as if she were horseflesh, coolly examining her teeth...
Amid this confusion, Volpe would stand silent, angry, and detached. Adoring order, he shows little patience with indecision or vacillation. Each morning, no matter what the circumstances, he attends Mass. Nearly every afternoon he stops the campaign caravan to visit a local priest. At four o'clock every day he insists on drinking a large frappe and reading the Herald-Traveler. His whole life seems one long constitutional, and he lives it not as a mundane routine but as a stoic and invigorating regimen...