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...separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
...flyspeck country of Brunei, perched on the northwest coast of Borneo, is a place long on intrigue, corruption and scrapping. Besides these normal excitements, Brunei has another concern these days: the steadily declining crude production in its privately owned oilfields. Dependent on petroleum, Brunei's economy is wobbly and in need of more oil income than it is now getting. To arrange a transfusion, Brunei turned to a man whose well of oil knowledge made his choice natural-Walter James Levy, 51, a New York petroleum consultant...
...very least, the U.S. would have to cease in its insistence that De Gaulle give up his "crude" little independent nuclear force. One top French official accuses the U.S. of trying to "divide the world between nuclear barons and infantry serfs." The counter idea of a multi-nation NATO nuclear force with at least three powers holding keys-U.S., Britain and France-seemed not to interest France much. De Gaulle knows full well that in the end the U.S. has no choice but to defend France against Soviet attack. That axiomatic umbrella of protection gives De Gaulle vast flexibility...
...Malinger." In World War I, Jews had to fight off a crude stereotype of themselves as shirkers. Said one U.S. Army manual: "The foreign-born, and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger than the native-born." The league protested to the White House, and President Wilson ordered the manual destroyed...
...language and unusual situation merely confuse his story and annoy his listeners. Nor are the plot and characters so novel. The salvation of the fallen woman, Carol, after her final rejection of environment, friends, and lover has been told before; the twist of using the reactivated love of her crude paramour Morey instead of that of a new Prince Charming is the only originality. Hart's background characters are better creations than his protagonists. The two not-so-innocent visitors from Harrisburg are superb caricatures, as is the TV actress so enmeshed in her role of Alice in Wonderland that...