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Juno and the Paycock (Angel, 2 LPs). With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
Mission to Paris. Before long, the talks progressed far beyond Goëau-Brisson nière's competence. He decided to fly back to Paris at once. The FLN leaders also wanted broader consultations, particularly with Leader Mohammed ben Bella, who is in Paris' Sante prison (see below). They took their problem to Premier Bourguiba, who suggested that he send Ben Bella's Tunisian friend and lawyer, Abdel Majid Chaker, to Paris to ask the jailed FLN leader: "What do you think of eventual negotiations with France?" Chaker would bring back an oral response...
...soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...
...Stricken to the heart by his plight, the prince gave the beggar seven loaves of fine bread. In gratitude, the holy man put his blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic in 1950 were loth to impose their democratic ways too swiftly on the 562 potentates who ruled their nation...
...spite of its present success, the company never forgets the catastrophe that hit the birds in 1942. A warm current called El Niño* crept down the coast of Peru. It drove the anchovetas away and starved millions of guano birds. Next time, the company intends to have a chain of walled-off peninsulas all the way to Chile. Then the birds can fly south by easy hops, and escape death-dealing El Ni...