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Pleasure Dome. As one step to boost employment, Singapore hopes to resume its profitable $500 million-a-year trade with Indonesia, halted 18 months ago in protest against Indonesia's guerrilla war with Malaya. The island's dire need for business has led it since October to sell the U.S. more than $2,000,000 worth of supplies for Viet Nam, though it disapproves of U.S. policy there. Premier Lee Kuan Yew is also considering making Singapore available as a rest spot for dollar-laden U.S. troops from Viet Nam. The most intriguing proposal, however...
...tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities as: "Life isn't all roses, you know...
...Bhupati's poet brother, as a refuge from her barrenness. At the end, however, the husband and wife manage to find love within the conventions of marriage, by accepting not their fate but each other. In Charulata Ray is reiterating a long-standing theme--that no circumstances are too dire to preclude happiness. The director's constant optimism becomes especially impressive in the context of modern India...
...F.D.R.s Lap. In scope and philosophy, Charlie Shuman's outfit today has little in common with the Farm Bureau that set out 45 years ago as a "wedding of corn and cotton"-meaning farm interests of the Middle West and the South. In the dire early days of the New Deal, when the bottom had dropped out of farming, the Farm Bureau cheered virtually every program it now condemns. It sat on Franklin Roosevelt's lap, busily buried pigs for Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace -even had a loose alliance with labor (in exchange for labor's support...
Such efforts at reform may ultimately rebut the militant argument that crime will decrease only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies in making "equal and exact justice" more equal and more exact. As Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has observed, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...