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...Waco, Tex. (pop. 56,000), but he had a letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...
...their beige Pekingese, for a six-month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn...
There are weak spots, even occasional weak stretches; and perhaps the whole thing could have a more truly dreamlike oddness. But with the costumes and sets carefully and beautifully patterned on the Tenniel drawings, and with Richard Addinsell's generally agreeable music, this Alice is no mere theatrical makeshift, but genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow...
...then mistaken or makeshift, the U.S. Vichy policy on the whole was shrewd, sensible, unsentimental, says Langer. "Possibly if we had treated De Gaulle differently, if we had thrown ourselves behind his movement, the man himself might have become less rambunctious. . . . But this is all purely speculative. . . . In the popular mind it all reduced itself to the choice between the authoritarian regime of Vichy and the heroic crusade of De Gaulle. But unless one can demonstrate that De Gaulle and his movement could have contributed more effectively to American interests . . . the whole argument against our policy falls flat...
...departments have made any attempt to alter their budgets to absorb this new strength. In the Social Sciences, Government still offers tutorial to that 25 percent who are candidates for honors; History has not budged from its original stand, and Economics offers no tutorial but merely a makeshift arrangement for thesis consultation. More disconcerting than this present indifference is the lack of interest exhibited by the Social Sciences, as well as such fields as English and History and Literature, in all plans which would turn this buyers' market of academic talent into a renaissance of tutorial...