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...musical about young love and philandering and lots and lots of money. Although that might sound offensive in the abstract, Nanette does the impossible: it makes the ultimate thin plot simply charming. The theme of the show is being happy. When the middle-aged audience rises at the curtain call to join the company in song-"Life's really worth livin' / When you are mirth-givin'"-it's hard not to believe that these theatre patrons are participating in a long-awaited ritual of self-legitimization...
...students stood outside below a window and looked up into the brightly lit room, yelling and booing at Goldwater; a staff member pulled a curtain over the window...
...create some 1,500,000 acres of newly fertile land. To finance it, Nasser turned to both the U.S. and Russia. Rebuffed by the U.S. on a request to purchase weapons in 1955, Nasser stunned?and delighted?the Arab world by announcing that he had made an Iron Curtain arms deal through Czechoslovakia. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles thereupon scratched Aswan as an American aid project, and Nasser responded by nationalizing the Suez Canal. "Americans," he cried, "may you choke on your fury...
That is a difficult formula to translate into specific action. Eras do not end with the finality of a third-act curtain; they dissolve gradually like a motion-picture fadeout, blending into the next scene. Nixon, like his recent predecessors, dreams of being the architect of a tranquil future for the entire world. Before leaving for Europe, he was again musing about the distinction between ending specific conflicts and achieving really durable peace. Nixon's burden, and the world's, is that the second cannot come without the first, that the passions and ambitions of dozens of countries conflict with...
...Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized by assorted Iron Curtain regimes as a wartime spy for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, but for reasons not made clear, he was never brought to trial. Until his death he worked as a copyreader for the government's foreign-language publishing house in Budapest...