Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What all the statistics add up to, according to the best estimates in Saigon, is that the South Vietnamese are holding their own-militarily. It remains to be seen how they will fare in South Viet Nam's second war-the political war waged by the U.S. against the Diem government...
...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
...curtain rises on a South Dakota whistle stop with an acting troupe doing a madcap facsimile of 1906 theater fare called The Mountie Gets His Man or Chang Lu, King of the White Slavers. With valiant agility and a good dagger-throwing arm, Mary saves her tiny "bay-bee" from a mountain waterfall, a grizzly bear, and the Oriental devil mentioned in the title. End of fun. Hubby (George Wallace) strands the company and deserts his wife and two kids. An English playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below...
...negotiations with bus companies are successful, the bus will operate from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Fare for each trip will be ten cents, and there will be four trips an hour. The bus will leave from Briggs Hall six or seven minutes before each hour, and run to Mem Hall via Garden St. After reloading, the bus will return to the Quad...
...decent base, for their play is as black and white as the actors' costumes. After five minutes no one doubts that boobery is the best that the leaders can manage, that soldiers are great guys if only left alone, and that war is a pretty stupid business. Spare fare indeed, especially when larded with such banalities as the British general praying to God for victory "before the Americans come." Also, using thirty-one songs from the war period, although an effective stimulant to nostalgia, reduces the area of irony so important to satire, leaving the worn jokes and mesmerizing slides...