Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock the loudspeakers told the crowd to split into three groups. One moved along broad Nguyen Hue Boulevard. The second marched to Doc Lap Palace to cheer Premier Ngo Dinh Diem...
...only with sacrificial entrails, but in other useful ways, more and more Vietnamese last week gave signs of Diem's growing control in his divided country. At Hue, the ancient royal capital of Annam. the council of the royal family, asserting an ancient prerogative, read ex-Emperor Bao Dai out of the family, forbade him the use of the imperial name, and pledged support to Diem's republican government...
...Reporter Dunbar has her own sets of figures to prove the contrary. But statistics aside, her major charge against Flesch is that he has grossly overstated his case. If she does not succeed in demolishing Flesch entirely, she does succeed in placing the battle in perspective. "Flesch's hue and cry about no phonics in the schools," says she, "is directed at a straw...
...inconsistency of which I speak is the Liberals insistence of fair play when he is at bat, and the disregard of this ethic when an opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former characteristic is the Liberal hue and cry, usually pursued to a sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink toe. An example of the latter characteristic is Mr. Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent...
...Winter Comedy," Christopher Fry's own description of his new play, is appropriate. The gay pastels of humor which clothed the British writer's earlier verse plays have changed to colors of a darker hue, and philosophy, not fun, is the keynote of The Dark Is Light Enough. The change of mood has not been an entirely fortunate one, since Fry is more attractive as a writer of comedy than as a deep thinker. But if the tone is new, the language is as it always was: a brilliant flight of imagery that demands air and open space and seems...