Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question to Mr. Cummings: What was your glorious...generation fighting for? Was it not to create as you saw fit? Do you find this easy now, or were you just revolting for the sake of revolt?...Why the preoccupation with the good old days? ...I find it much the same world you intimated in your preface to The Enormous Room...It's no easier...
...Since Europe's bourgeoisie have "sold" their nations' pride and liberty for a mess of U.S. dollars (the Marshall Plan), Communists have a glorious opportunity to pose as patriots' raising the banner of national independence. In other words, whip up French against Germans, Germans against British, British against Americans...
Shock Brigades. At one point the Leader waxed nostalgic. Today, he said, the task of the "shock brigades of liberation" (fifth columnists) is easier by far than it was in the glorious days of 1918 when the true Heroes of the Soviet Union (men like Joseph Stalin) stood alone against the world. "Today . . . from China and Korea to Czechoslovakia and Hungary, new shock brigades have appeared in the forms of popular democratic governments." The Leader set forth a new set of rules...
...current Lillie evening has many fine, authentic Lillie moments. But much of the material-skit or song, new or old, even as famous as Three Little Fishies-is either not very good in itself or not what Bea can do best. In the past, she has been most glorious upsetting full-stage apple carts, playing hob with vast production numbers; the atmosphere here dwindles, in more ways than one, to that of a nightclub. Bea's gifts at times seem almost as wasted as they are wonderful...
...Premier. No Naguib, he made it clear that he does not want to stay in office. This week Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies will pick a new President. In the President's palace the Father of Belly spent the weekend packing, while old friends, remembering his glorious days, streamed in to say goodbye...