Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the British gave him two major assists. First, they booted him out of office in 1953 before the people could be disillusioned at his lack of an overall program and his patent lack of administrative ability. Says one rival politician: "He should have been allowed enough rope to hang himself." Thus, to the voters, Jagan is still a martyred hero. Then, after belatedly setting up an $84 million emergency-aid program to quiet rising discontent, the British ruined the effect by slowing down expenditures...
...best; but the second best of Shakespeare--as of Brutus--is impressive. Still, the serious main story of Hero and Claudio in Much Ado is pallid stuff, and is based more on accident and coincidence than a Hardy novel. Shakespeare obviously took this tale just as a frame to hang some original fun on. What impresses us (as it did Berlioz in fashioning his last opera) is the sparkling and witty comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, along with the wonderful farce of the constable Dogberry and his night watch...
...Coupled with French and foreign investment in the bursting new oilfields, the flow of new capital into North Africa would ensure rapid industrialization, dispose of many of the troubles now besetting the impoverished Moslem population. So the Sahara riches at once became a reason why some Frenchmen want to hang onto Algeria at all costs, and others want to reach a compromise with the Arabs. Either way, without peace in Algeria, the Miracle of the Sahara could easily become a mirage...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...
...girl) will desert in the fall for a town house. Tanner is masterminding the rebuilding of this now-gutted dream house: the brownstone front will be limestone, the ceiling in the maid's sitting room will be knocked out to create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored cars, baroque faucets...