Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Veteran Soviet Character Actor Evgeny Samoilov, 53, certainly seemed out of character that night in Moscow's Mayakovsky Theater. A few days later, readers of the Evening Moscow knew why. "Dear Comrade Editor," Samoilov wrote remorsefully. "I was not sober for the evening performance. My delinquency defames the title of Soviet actor." In the future, moaned Samoilov, who holds three Stalin Prizes, "I will wash out this stain with my work...
...freed of the politically constraining effects of ambition. His age also permits him to indulge his one really wild eccentricity without fear of voting-booth reprisals. When Young is displeased by a letter--whether or not it comes from a constituent--he writes a thoroughly nasty response. For example: "Dear Sir: It appears to me that you have been grossly misinformed, or are exceedingly stupid. Which...
...those critics-notably Sovietologist George Kennan and Pundit Walter Lippmann-who contend that Viet Nam's destiny is a trivial matter compared with the defense of Western Europe. To this thesis, Johnson replied: "We cannot raise a double standard to the world. We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe." Nor, he suggested pointedly, should the U.S. "be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin is a different color...
...Merrick rehearsals and previews he wished. That was fine, so long as Merrick did not have a play ready. Last week, however, he had. A few days before the opening of Philadelphia, Here I Come! (see THEATER), Merrick sent two preview passes to Kauffmann. Attached was an ominous note: "Dear Mr. Kauffmann: At your peril. Sincerely, David Merrick...
Died. Will A. Dillon, 88, composer of such Tin Pan ditties as At the End of the Road and I'll Wed the Girl I Left Behind, but best remembered for his lyrics for I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; of arteriosclerosis; in Ithaca...