Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemies, Iraq or Israel, might march in. In such confusion, there was a chance for Jordan's young King to maneuver. So began his busy days and sleepless nights. He flew off to Saudi Arabia to see King Saud, the blood enemy of the Hashemites, whose concern over Communist penetration now runs thicker than blood feuds. Saud promised money to the young King. Within the Jordanian army...
...talked her way into a job singing in a little Left Bank nightspot. From there she graduated to the big clubs. She writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which...
Alfred Kaufman's set is awkward and careless, perhaps the keynotes of the show. It is not that these people are new-comers which makes this production fail, but that they have reached for the grandiose effects without any concern for the numerous details of scene and character that build up the effective image of heightened reality which is the heart of theatre...
...kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...
Claiming that Greene has "mismanaged" her interests, Marilyn last week chose a new board. Intending to go on slaving for M.M.P., ex-V.P. Greene chirped: "My principal concern is that my investment is properly protected." Harrumphed President Monroe: "My company was not set up merely to parcel out 49.4% of all my earnings to Mr. Greene for seven years...