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...times in ten different productions. For all his familiarity with the Moor, he still dwells on Otello's mysteries and often the tragedy of it gets to him. ''Sometimes the death of Otello affects me so much," he says, "that tears fall and I begin to choke up. That's no good. The audience gets nothing...
While taking in Robert Dawson's good poems for instance, the ancient courtesan has had to choke on his bad ones as well. The "Superman" and "Donald Duck" of Dawson's Suite Picaresque neatly juxtapose their heroes with a more immediate world, and unlike "Tonto" and "Woody Woodpecker" are careful and clever, never trying to tease too many profundities at once. For the most part he avoids what most of this issue's other contributors tirelessly insist upon attempting--sloppy, rambling, and pretentious juggling with the Absolute. Instead of annihilating all his images by sudden leaps from them into windy...
...thousand students in Delhi marched from the Red Fort in the old city to Connaught Place, shouting anti-Chinese slogans and waving banners reading "Choke the yellow opium eaters!" and "Wipe Out Chink Stink!" That evening, brandishing torches, the students charged police lines before the office of the Communist Party while a handful of Red underlings cowered in the darkness behind a hedge on the office lawn. The desperate Indian Communists finally issued a party statement denouncing both Moscow and Peking, and appealing to "all sections of the people to unite in defense of the motherland...
Take the National League. What a joke. The League was all right until August, but then the Pirates, the Reds, the Dodgers and the Giants took turns in showing just how bad they could be. The Giants finally lost this competition, and wound up winning the first from the choke-up Dodgers...
Even if it seems about to choke on its own traffic, New York is pre-eminently "Headquarters City" for major U.S. business. Thus it will continue to be the center of culture and entertainment; the luxury apartments will not go empty nor the big hotels lack for tourists...