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...Angry Joker? Dr. Tsiang suggested that the matter of whether he was officially present should be taken up at a special meeting. But Malik said that any meeting with Tsiang was a "parody." Then Malik (having less difficulty than Alice had had with her flamingo) tucked his papers under his arm and stalked out. He did not even wait to hear the translation of his speech into French and English. For all he knew (officially), a majority of the Council members would agree with him when they learned what...
...joker in Shaw breaks out sufficiently in Caesar and Cleopatra, e.g., his burlesqued esthete (well played by John Buckmaster) and frightfully proper Early Briton (well played by Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create...
...four aces represent greater military power, a larger and more efficient industry, greater resources of raw material, and greater spirit, he stated. The joker, he concluded, is the fact that new nations would constantly be added to the "union of the free...
Under those conditions "we must hold the strongest hand possible to win the game," Streit stated. If a "federal union of the free" is established, he stated, "we will hold all four aces and the joker...
...their complicated agreement, as long as no master contract had been signed for next season, the orchestra was obliged to make all the musicians free agents. That gave the men a chance to find new jobs if they wanted to, and the orchestra a chance to make replacements. The joker: in the past, the musicians had been warned in advance that the firing was a mere formality. Last week, on this point, President Reichhold was silent...