Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Friends. Yet in Oslo, the Communist World Peace Council was busy trying to prove that the nations with which Russia yearns to coexist are a bunch of bloodthirsty plague spreaders. Even though the sessions were attended by the standard Red cheerleaders, the show proved something of a flop. At a three-hour press conference, France's Joliot-Curie, who once had some stature as an honest scientist, showed "documentary" films of germ warfare from Korea and China. When reporters asked such questions as "How many killed?" the answer was: "Secret information...
Target: At Home. Nervously querying its embassies abroad, the State Department was told that Communism's refusal to let the outside world see for itself had discredited the Communist campaign everywhere this side of the Iron Curtain. But that did not mean it was a flop. Previous Communist propaganda maneuvers -the disarmament campaign of 1946, the warmonger cry of 1947, the phony Stockholm Peace Appeal of 1949-had at least a semblance of plausibility, and were designed to arouse and divide nations outside the Communist orbit...
...Bemelmans tells it, his present state of ease is a great surprise to him. The grandson of a Bavarian brewer, he showed early signs of being the family flop. He never managed to get through school, failed miserably as an apprentice in his Uncle Hans's string of Tyrolean hotels. Finally, in desperation, his family sent him to the U.S., and there he started failing all over again...
...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...Government's Point Four program to develop the economies of backward na tions with private capital has been a flop...