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...more to the list of hideous State Department blunders. This time a number of African students, stranded in Communist capitals in Eastern Europe, have been refused passage to the West. The students, according to the New York Times, are chafing at Communist pressures to join in political activities with which they have no sympathy. Those who cooperate are being treated very well, but the stipends of the rest are being reduced, and many have requested financial aid so that they might transfer to Western universities...
...means convinced of it, for the book is too sketchy to resolve the difficult question of a nation's conscience, yet sometimes, in his drive for simplicity, Black goes too far, as for instance when he airily declares that "the world, according to the Communists, is riven by a hideous class warfare between the have-not nations and the haves," or when he states that it is the "balance of hope" rather than the "balance of power that is at stake." One's mind wanders from Black's fascinating negotiations over Suez and the Indus River basin back...
...must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added the subtitie "or, What You Will" to this play. At any rate, London has turned Tweifth Night into a comedy of errors. Imagine, if you can, a neoionic tempietto on stage right, with a hideous stained-glass dome (this is Orsino's lair; no wonder he says. "The appetite may sicken, and so die."); and, on the left, a two-story pavilion with Victorian gimcrackery and shades that are raised and lowered with annoying frequency (Olivia's summer resort, and last resort). In the center...
...both Tennessee sensation-mongering and Westport comedy on a secret hunger for wickedness and bohemianism found in a rich, middle-class society. But he also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only my own bad world, coarsely admired...
...Immoral." Bikinis, to hear the designers tell it, are favorably regarded only by the well-shaped women who buy them. "Most manufacturers do not like Bikinis," admits Rose Marie Reid, one of the most popular of U.S. swimsuit stylists. "They are vulgar, hideous, immoral." Fred Cole of Cole of California agrees. Bikinis account for about 5% of all swimsuit sales...