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Waiting for Trouble. In similar fashion, the dates of Vice President Nixon's visit to Latin America were well known in advance, and skilled agitators had only to direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders...
...wanted to step down for a while as Prime Minister. Nehru had come to the conclusion that something was terribly wrong with his chosen instrument, the Congress Party, and that many of his aides, through self-seeking, corruption, scandals, jobbery and squabbling, had turned it into a flabby, directionless movement that is unable to win the support of the young or to counteract the wave of cynicism spreading throughout India...
...directionless confusion, people feared the Israelis, the Americans, the Russians, fellow Arabs-anyone who might start something. They talked about the latest Soviet fleet maneuvers in the Mediterranean. Nobody seriously argued that anybody was about to attack Syria, or that Syria was about to attack its neighbors...
Miss Darnell waddles around self-consciously, and skims only the surface off a perturbing character. She never appears to be a woman worth arguing about. Mr. Alda, charming at first, seems to know that to be, but falls with his weak lines and impossible character into a confused and directionless series of histronics. Paul Langton, who gets third building as husband number two, is indistinguishable in one's memory ten minutes after the final curtain. The unlucky kid who is a party to the unlucky marital trio is played well by young Peter Votrain. Well, it preseverance and energy...
...true that the American reading public has been kicked, beaten, ridiculed, and generally pummelled for the last three decades. Throughout this time the "affirmatives" have been brooding and grumbling about the contrast between America's spectacular rise to Number One Nation, and its authors castigation of directionless, valueless, hypocritical America. In the same period the "anti-affirmatives" have been gaily dancing and clicking their heels, gurgling something very much like "Oh boy, oh boy." So now, with the appearance of Marjorie Morning-star, the tables are turned, and everybody is making himself just as ridiculous, if not more...