Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tacho makes no bones about hating Costa Rica's dictator-hating President José ("Pepe") Figueres, whom he blames for a trying experience last April, when Nicaraguan exiles entering from Costa Rica tried to kill him after a party at the U.S. embassy. About every dark of the moon since then, some kind of anti-Figueres plot has popped up. In July the U.S. got Somoza cooled off only after he had sent a mile-long convoy of armored cars and trucks to the Costa Rican border. But the current plot looked more like the big show than...
...waived a 30-day layover period required for such contracts. But the Democrats were by no means ready to admit defeat. Lyndon Johnson had cried that the next Congress, with New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson as Joint Committee chairman, would "expose Dixon-Yates, written in the dark of the moon, to some good New Mexican sunlight...
...Moon Looks Down. As Carrington well knows, the art is not easy. Drum talk is not a code like Morse. It is actually an attempt to reproduce language. Every syllable has its own tone, which the drummer must be able to catch by striking the hollow log at exactly the right spot. In some Bantu dialects, a single tone pattern may have different meanings, as in the pattern for moon and jowl. Thus, a drummer must know enough to add a qualifying phrase: moon becomes "the moon looks down on the earth" and fowl turns into "the fowl, the little...
With Black-Eyed Susan, author A. B. Shiffrin has attempted a play in the genre of The Moon Is Blue. Like F. Hugh Herbert's earlier effort, it is a drawing-room comedy with the shades pulled, featuring affairs which New York critics like to call "delightfully naughty." Unfortunately Black-Eyed Susan lacks the subtleties of its predecessor; the author is too consciously daring. Instead of appearing as a sage of the boudoir, he seems more like the little boy who has just pulled a successful raid...
With no auditors and no firm limits to the type of film, movie showing is essentially right back where it started. The French Club will show French films, the Mathematics Club will present the latest in science fiction, and the Astronomy Club might even show The Moon Is Blue. And unless the University has an accredited official watch the club books, there will be no assurance that the desire for the dollar has not supplanted a club's legitimate cultural activities...