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...Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from 1959 to 1961. And Administration officials were pleased to point out that the U.S. is sending an admiral as envoy to a land whose seafaring tradition is still nourished by the long-ago exploits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama. But even so, for George Anderson the new job is quite a comedown...
...Shortly they have taken it so seriously that it is a real wall of hate and hostility leading Thyrsus to poison Corydon with contaminated water at the same time he strangles her with a supposed necklace of rich jewels. It all happens very fast. In reality it is alla gama. But Thyrsus and Corydon die. And even though it was only a game within a play, their bodies do not move but remain on the stage when Pierrot and Columbine return to rehearse from the beginning (da capo) their own skit. They decide to ignore the dead sheepherders in front...
...Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing behind." Son of a lawyer, he was sent...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan's trip to Portugal, first shown in March 1959, covers the country from the university city of Coimbra to the fish wharves of Nazaré. Much of the talent is Portuguese, plus such inexact descendants of Vasco da Gama as Maurice Chevalier...
...unenviable responsibility for King Gama, a not-overly-pleasant example of Gilbert's penchant for uglification, falls to Arthur Waldstein, who emerges victorious if not triumphant...