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Former dictator Salazar ruled Portugal and its empire by the glorification of nationalism and the country's imperial heritage. He had a stroke in 1968 after an unsound deckchair he was sitting on collapsed. But it took him two years...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Angola Is Not Portugal's Happiest Colony | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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