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...manifest failure of his two major foreign policies: the special relationship with the United States, which Kennedy killed in Nassau, and entry into the Common Market, which De Gaulle now threatens to kill in Brussels. If De Gaulle carries out his threat, Macmillan is done, and when Labour comes in after the next General Election, Britain and Europe will go their own ways...
...Arthur, Conservative member of Parliament for the Scot-constituency of Perth and East Perthshire, left the Summer School's International Seminar last and returned to London to vote on a motion of censure introduced against his party by Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell...
...censure motion "actually did a great deal to unite the Tory Party," MarArthur asserted. Although Galtskell knew that this would happen, members of Labour expected him to challenge the government, and he had no other choice...
...laudable portrayals of the evening do belong to Evans. The first is Biron's soliloquy "And I, forsooth, in love!" from Loye's Labour's Lost. The second is the scene in Midsummer Night's Dream where Bottom and his cronies prepare the "Pyramus and Thisbe" episode; here Evans, in a delightful virtuosic display, takes all the roles himself. The only tamdem bit that builds up any dramatic power at all is the closet scene from Hamlet, in which Miss Hayes' Gertrude is passable...
...characters indulge themselves in pouring out poetry at great length and turning an etat d'ame into a cosmic phenomenon. Like King John and two parts of Henry VI, Richard II has no prose; and it contains more rhymes than any plays in the canon except Love's Labour's Lost and Midsummer Night's Dream. As a whole, the play is vastly superior to, say, Romeo and Juliet, written at the same time...