Word: frog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). "Let Me Hear You Whisper" might seem a vari ation on the old frog-and-princess tale: it's the story of a scrubwoman (Ruth White) who strikes up a friendship with a porpoise, played by a life-size puppet and Puppeteer Bil Baird's voice...
...more than a gal a day." He retells the best of the anecdotes from the days when the boys were as funny off-screen as on. Best of all, the book resists the temptation to analyze, observing E. B. White's dictum: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process...
Tension between the two men keeps Blood Knot from being a mawkish paean to poverty. John Dullaghan, who played Morris off-Broadway, mumbles like a flat-car hobo that he was forced to come back to Zachariah from his guilt at trying to pass. With a frog-legged squat and a patchquilt beard he nags and cajoles Zachariah not to leave...
...Frog-marched from a Mosque. The current, renewed trouble broke out at Mansoura, a delta provincial capital 75 miles northeast of Cairo, over a decree is sued by the new Education Minister, ex-Professor Murad. Its effect would be to force marginal students to repeat their grade and expel third-year students who fail twice. Probably egged on by the violent Moslem Brotherhood, some 5,000 Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries...
...capital, 1,000 Cairo University students were driven back when they armed themselves with bricks and palm branches and charged police barricades blocking their school. When 50 took refuge in the Mosque of Manial, horrified worshipers gasped as the cops raced inside without taking off their boots and frog-marched captives off to jail...