Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway, all this time, was also happily in business. In Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court Martial, it turned out first-rate theater. In John Patrick's Teahouse of the August Moon (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...
While Molotov was busy mixing peacetime Molotov cocktails (honey and ground glass) at Geneva, two other leading Communists were breathing martial fire in Moscow before the Supreme Soviet. Said Premier Malenkov, to one parliamentary chamber: "If the aggressive circles banking on the atomic weapon should resort to madness, and should want to test the strength and might of the Soviet Union, there can be no doubt that the aggressor would be crushed . . ." Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev told the other chamber: "It will inevitably end in the collapse of the whole capitalist system...
Born. To Herman Wouk, 38, bestselling novelist (The Caine Mutiny) and playwright (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), and Betty Sarah Brown Wouk, 33: their third child, third son; in Manhattan. Name: Joseph. Weight...
...Before God . . ." There was no evidence. The case made little progress. Fifteen of the accused were released on parole. Madrid tried to get the army to court-martial the men, but the military shied away. "Basque separatism," said one officer, "is not a tangible, clandestine organization. It is a state of mind. You cannot court-martial a state of mind...
...governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites wanted martial law and an all-out offensive against the Mau Mau. The others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four-man war council...