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...night, the leathernecks, newly arrived in a strange land, faced a knotty problem of identification: how to distinguish between the Viet Cong and the loyal South Vietnamese. When a large group of Vietnamese, carrying the caskets of 20 air-raid victims, approached the Marine defense zone around the base in a protest demonstration, confused Marine officers had to call in Vietnamese air-force police to help with the identification problem lest the marchers turned out to be V.C.s in disguise...
...only flaw was the chorus. Most of them simply were not very good dancers. And their facial expressions were ludicrous. Lack of blank expressions, I am told, is one of the factors that distinguish jazz dancing from modern dancing. In The Comedy, facial expression was ably used as a means of communication. But in an American in Paris the pasted on smiles of most of the dancers made them look like a night club chorus line. The chorus was ably used, however, in the travel and farewell scenes, where they convincingly represented inanimate objects, like trains and waves...
...hard for those old-line liberals who watched what the Russians did in East Europe to alter their conception of how Communism operates, or to learn to distinguish between Communisms and make decisions based on those distinctions. Yet the time has come when that learning process must take place...
Perhaps it is impossible to make appealing theatre out of When We Dead Awaken. Certainly it is hard to distinguish Ibsen's shortcomings from those of director and cast. The Theatre Company's major mistake, I think, was to produce When We Dead Awaken in the first place. In their quest for unusual modern plays, they seem this time to have bitten off more than they--or possibly any company--can chew...
Since the panel's aluminum sheets vary in thickness, they will be able to distinguish between meteoroids of different energy. Pegasus will store all such information and hold it until it gets a radio command to transmit its observations to the ground...