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...made a small speech, saying that "art knows no national boundaries," since Jack London, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are read in the Soviet Union, while Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak are read in the U.S. While the whole affair was a financial success, it was a cultural flop, especially for those in the National Armory. The acoustics were so bad, the atmosphere so close and the program so poor that nearly half of the audience walked out before it was half over...
...high point of peace and quiet for the Cambridge Police Department, and another low one for Yale Weekend rioting. The hand tried to hold a rally the night before the game, but apathy resigned as more policeman attended than students. "The riot," declared the CRIMSON, "was a flop...
Hopeless from the Start. On the whole, the audiences seemed to like the absence of decorations that overwhelm the dancers in Bolshoi productions such as Spartacus. Said Composer Aram Khachaturian : "If Balanchine had done the choreography for my Spartacus, it wouldn't have been a flop." Balanchine politely disagreed. Spartacus was hopeless from the start, he said, because it was based on a false conception. Like much of Russian ballet, it subordinated music and dancing to plot and decoration, whereas ballet should be music and dance - first, last and foremost...
...inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped into town at 60 m.p.h.. buses glided smoothly, and Transport Minister Marples found the way clear when he bicycled to work. For the striking railwaymen who wanted to cause maximum discomfort, the whole thing proved a flop. For the public it was as one typist sighed, "a lovely, lovely strike...
...those who work it," and "Those who have no land must have some." As a starter, he divided 13% (more than 3,000,000 acres) of Cuba's total farmland into 630 cooperative farms. Fortnight ago, Castro conceded that the land distribution to peasants had been a flop, partly because it encouraged too much private initiative...