Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the admission of failure came a compulsive Communist need to label it a success. Red newspapers carried banner headlines crying, LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD- and LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S COMMUNES! In city after Chinese city last week, party workers were ordered into the street to beat drums and lead parades "celebrating" what were really ghastly failures. Most ominous of all were the blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune...
...terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant...
...bachelor tours" (which many married couples join), tours that swing through great museums or restaurants, great beaches or battlefronts. Three years ago Camera Bug Eric L. Ergenbright of North Hollywood opened his own agency, this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...
...Dobie consumes much of his one-track energy in the chase after females, and his main problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut. As the gulls fly in from the Sound to rain clams on the roof, the families keep moving out, and turnover produces such attractions...
...Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape. J.B. Tailored by Archibald MacLeish, Job in grey flannels cuts an impressive theatrical figure, even if he does lack the fierce language and logic of his Biblical ancestor...