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Musicians, a choral fairy tale based on Grimm. Costumed soloists-donkey, dog, cat and rooster-almost turned the piece into a little opera...
...Some suspect that Tumulty is more opportunist than clown. In his own district, Jersey City's monthly Independent, a non-partisan newsletter, ticked him off in an imaginary interview. Sample: "Q". 'They say that you jump too easily / From the Donkey's back to the G.O.P./ Would you care to comment, Mr. T.?' A, 'I'm for only one party / A grand old party / And that grand old party...
Authors Gerhardi and Loewenstein have obviously spent many hours of near-simian ingenuity on Analyze Yourself. Though many of their conclusions are demonstrably false ("Don Juan or donkey, we are all alike in our love-making") and sometimes alarming ("Every male in the grip of passion behaves . . . like an impetuous bull"), others are shrewd and accurate, e.g., "As an artist ... do not labor under any illusion that society will safeguard or sustain...
...Change of Name? The extra head on the donkey put in a somewhat embarrassed appearance in connection with a Democratic strategy conference scheduled by National Chairman Paul Butler immediately after the governors' conference. When the Eisenhower-arranged meeting was over, Ohio's independent Governor Frank Lausche promptly headed for Columbus, leaving behind a sharp rejection of Butler's invitation to the Democratic session. Said Lausche: "I do not contemplate joining a political meeting to figure out ways and means of defeating the man who has just been my host." The same afternoon, Lausche had an angry answer...
...have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past 2, and our government is run like a nightclub," cracked Don Juan Palacios, the improbable count in Ludwig Bemelmans' 1941 travel book about Ecuador, The Donkey Inside. If the count (or Bemelmans) were to visit Ecuador this week, he might have to eat those cynical words. One of South America's backward nations has been undergoing a healthy change. Since 1950, Ecuador...