Word: cleopatras
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...interventionist troops . . . Churchill's statement [that the U.S. Mediterranean Fleet is a deterrent to aggression] was the statement of an aggressor clanking with atomic weapons . . . Churchill's language is the language of Hitler . . . Churchill and his cannibalistic advocates such as [Ernest] Davies [British deputy] would make even Cleopatra blush...
...principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
...true measure of a radio system's popularity, BBC outranks U.S. radio. Of Britain's 50 million people, 48 million are estimated to listen to BBC every week. Six million listeners (the equivalent of 18 million in the U.S.) heard Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; more than 7,000,000 listened for eight nights to a series of talks on atomic energy; Comedian Wilfred Pickles has an audience of 12-14 million, relatively far more than that of any U.S. comic...
...interested in going to Hollywood. For one thing, they think a good deal of their success depends on their understanding of the British background. "Hollywood's idea of Britain is strictly Victorian," they feel. "You'd . . . have to stick in the inevitable London fog, Thames Embankment, or Cleopatra's Needle . . . There's no doubt you'd become a hireling...
Caesar and Cleopatra...