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...battle smoke and bitter cries of the crisis gave place last week to the buzz of debate, the world's gaze and the world's hope were directed toward Washington as rarely before. Hungarians, almost unreasoningly, sought the U.S.'s solace and help, some believing that the mere appearance of G.I. paratroopers in Budapest would have sent the Soviets scuttling. Arabs cheered the Stars & Stripes that fluttered from U.S. cars in Cairo and Port Said. Asians talked of Eisenhower's "honesty and integrity." The U.S., dedicated to freedom for all, was surrounded by staring millions...
...Terribly Hindu." In the current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
Bonk, Bonk, Bonk. As is clear from his opening measures, Jimmy Drake achieved his overnight success without the benefit of a musical education. What he has in abundance, however, is the ability to regard the world with the fractured gaze of a teenager. Reminiscing about his career, he recalls that his mother gave him a banjo when he was still a schoolboy in Los Angeles and remarked, "Here, go make something of yourself.'' But. says Jimmy sadly, "I just couldn't cut the mustard. So then my grandmother, she bought me a uke and said, 'Jimmy...
...sunny afternoon last week Besley sat down at his favorite window, focused his glasses on the lake. He watched a launch cut through the water, the frolicking bathers on the beach. Shifting his gaze inland he saw a woman sitting on a camp chair. She was reading a book. Walking slowly up from behind her, a white shirt in his hand, was a tanned, muscular, bare-chested man. Curious, Besley watched as the man walked along the edge of a thicket, suddenly dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the bushes...
Bullfight (Janus Films) is a feature-length European-made documentary which brings to U.S. moviegoers all the blood and gore that Hollywood's code of ethics has denied them. Where Hollywood cameras have averted their gaze because of the bans on scenes of cruelty to animals, Bullfight stares fixedly and spares the viewer no detail of "the moment of truth...