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Instead, Mao Tse-tung took the occasion to launch his toughest, most strident blast at Moscow since the Sino-Soviet squabble began. A 60,000-word broadside in Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag declared: "Certain people, though calling themselves Marxist-Leninists, are in fact muddleheaded; they talk drivel . . . They either make endless concessions to the enemy and thus commit the error of capitulationism, or act recklessly and thus commit the error of adventurism." Peking added contemptuously that Communists like Russia's Khrushchev, Italy's Togliatti and France's Thorez, who advocated "peaceful" revolution...
...harder evening in the theater, sitting there opening night "smiling," as one critic described it, "his bland Oriental smile." According to the columns, when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after...
...they appear wildly eccentric against the puritan drabness of Khrushchev's Russia, few such poets can compete in nonconformity with Vladimir Mayakovsky, Stalin's poet laureate. Mayakovsky was a brilliant, brattish libertine who alternated between slavish drivel in praise of Communism and biting satires against it. Sickened by repression and criticism, he committed suicide in 1930. Stalin astounded Party hacks by decreeing that he was Russia's "best and most talented" poet, adding ominously: "Indifference to his work and memory is a crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin...
...gentleman and lady named are prey to wanderlust; but their exploits are infinitely more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon are thrown in free...
...Your feature story on Playwright Jean Kerr was if nothing else consistent. A TIME-worn journalistic cliché on a creator of time-worn drivel. Please Don't Eat This Letter...