Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maharani," paused outside Vyas' house to shout insults; elsewhere, village poets hymned the maharani. She is grimly determined to win, but at the moment her major campaign concern is the garlands and flower petals constantly tossed at her by enthusiastic supporters. Explains she: "I've got terrible hay fever...
Alfred E. Vellucci, whose customary comic performances have ceased to be funny this year. During the campaign, Vellucci has attempted to make hasty, blatant political hay of almost all legislation and several times has displayed discourtesy in the Council chamber...
...production. Yet since agriculture is Mr. Hindus' forte, his remarks on farming often prove quite interesting. He notes, for example, that the Soviet milkmaid has "by the grace of Khrushchev, ...been lifted to the status of a new heroine on Soviet farms." For spending her entire day at pitching hay to at most twenty-five cows, milking them, and cleaning their stalls-what to an American farmer are mere morning and evening chores-the milkmaid receives, before bonuses, over twice the wages of the average male field worker...
...Flows the Don has all the cowboy accoutrements: fistfights, whippings, sex (diluted), cossack cavalry charges, and even an attempted suicide with a three-foot scythe blade. With these it combines the usual Soviet trappings: oppressed peasants, oppressive nobles, and oppressingly nationalistic shots of women out in the fields raking hay. But like the suicide attempt, which ends up cutting a tendon instead of the jugular vein, the movie is rather anti-climactic, despite the imitation-Hollywood splendor. No one is surprised when the peasants decide that Marx was right. No one is shocked, though many shudder, when the male lead...
...although the race of those who will remember him as one of their own is disappearing, historians will keep his name from being forgotten, for a few decades at least. Like John Hay and the "Open Door," Welles will be remembered because of slogan that sums up his major accomplishment: the "Good Neighbor" policy. To him is due the credit for opening the battle against dollar diplomacy. If the battle is yet far from won, we owe a debt of respect to the man who challenged not only the dominant forces around him, but also his own background...