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This week the Pretender will get back to Estoril just in time to celebrate his 49th birthday. A few days later, there will come a flood of guests-friends, political supporters, monarchists of any ilk-for 31 the formal celebration of the feast day of his patron saint, San Juan Bautista. Every year the ritual is the same. As the visitors enter Villa Giralda's big, comfortable drawing room, they press toward Don Juan and his wife to bow or curtsy. They greet the man who may one day be their ruler...
...making each other's fortunes. Stevens has financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done all his all to smooth the path of the Witt Stevens Company, the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Corporation (ArkLa), which Stevens controls, and the man's many other far-flung enterprises. Like many of his ilk, Stevens desires to keep in the background; and since nothing of the sort could be further from Faubus' mind, they are hand and glove...
...both a Republican and Catholic and have no intention of voting for Kennedy unless Peale and his ilk choose to make religion an issue. Then Kennedy will get my vote if only for pure sympathy...
Rejecting Khrushchev's preaching that "socialism" can triumph peacefully, Red Flag called on Communists to "stick to the principles of Marxism-Leninism" and prepare for "a just war to end the unjust war" for which "Eisenhower and his ilk are actively making ready." Nuclear war is not something for Communists to fear, said Red Flag, for "on the debris of a dead imperialism, the victorious people would create with extreme rapidity a civilization thousands of times higher than the capitalist system...
...great play but that it sets the model from which great poetic drama may hope to flow in our times." And, indeed, Ciardi contended that "MacLeish's great technical achievement is in his forging of a true poetic stage line for our times." Dismissing Eliot, Auden, Fry, and lesser ilk as failures in this respect, he pointed out that "until now, no one since Shakespeare has found a sufficient answer to the problems that arise from the combination of poetry and the stage ... Only MacLeish has found the line that teaches the American language how to go greatly...