Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekend motor trip to Namur, in Belgium, helped to break the ice; Indonesia's Premier Mohammed Hatta and the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Johan van Maarseveen, reached some important decisions chatting in their car. Explained Van Royen: "It doesn't pay to try to be too clever. The only way to gain confidence is to treat people as normal equals. The fortunate thing is that our interests run parallel. They can't do without us, nor we without them...
Regina (written & composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. As music, it is more clever than distinguished; as drama, it is clearly a littler Foxes. But on its own terms-and they are wisely very much its own-it is an exhilarating and enjoyable show...
Notably of the mine run is Harold Robbins' The Dream Merchants, which begins promisingly as a closely documented account of the rise of a Jewish storekeeper to movie power but quickly subsides to a spun-sugar saga of love, virtue and clever financing, all triumphant. Where Author Robbins writes as chronicler he has interesting things to say; where he begins to function as novelist he is simply depressing...
Fiorella, a veteran of 40 years on this job, supplied a musical background for the simian's gymnastics. He commented that his monkey was very clever but couldn't be compared with Harvard...
...second feature, "Somewhere in the Night," has a clever enough plot but falls into the pitfall of melodrama that its running mate escapes...