Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me most grievous that at this time we can do little else but wish the Poujadists successes in their horrible campaign. As Goya said, "The dream of reason produces monsters." So has it been for France, the homeland of reason...
...zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland." He feels he is in good company, for Shakespeare too seems to him to be disgraced in his homeland ("The Old Vic is only a hole-and-corner existence for England's greatest dramatist...
...direction of the plotters was understandably hard for the government to prove, but some evidence existed. In Uruguay a fortnight ago, his private secretary, Luis Radeglia, who had flown in from Panama, was detained and found to have tape recordings of Peron speeches, presumably for broadcasts to the homeland. In Buenos Aires Peronistas were peddling phonograph records labeled as tangos but really pep talks by Peron...
Actress Ingrid Bergman, 39, signed up with 20th Century-Fox studio to do the title role in a film version of the Broadway hit Anastasia (TIME, Jan. 10). The movie will not be shot in the U.S., Ingrid's adopted homeland until 1949, when she left to star in the film Stromboli ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), deserted her surgeon husband for Italian Director Roberto Rossellini on the raging Mediterranean island, later married little Roberto's proud papa...
...another exile from the U.S., veteran (66) Cine-comedian Charlie Chaplin, an ex-resident of Hollywood since 1952. The two Britons chatted candidly and parted amicably. Last week, however, Belfrage, without leave from Leftist Chaplin, tattled on Charlie in the Guardian. According to Belfrage, Chaplin now detests America, his homeland for some 40 years. Chaplin was quoted as saying: "I no longer have any use for America at all. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President...