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...last year has been the growing awareness that they are Europeans, no longer islanded in glorious and superior detachment. Recognition of Russia as Britain's enemy and European Communism as the enemy's instrument has proceeded apace for many months; the process is now well nigh complete...
There is no real lead in the play. Top roles are shared by nine men, all of whom happen to be members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately...
Garden of Eden. In the travel-bureau ads, Hawaii is the Garden of Eden. As far as oceanographers are concerned, it is a well-nigh totally submerged volcanic range spread across 2,000 miles of ocean. Its economic orbit includes six chief islands, of which Kauai is furthest west. The archipelago's commercial heart is the city of Honolulu (pop. 267,000), on Oahu, which is Eden-with a touch of Indianapolis...
Faculty reaction stirred last nigh against a bill filed yesterday by State Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes in the Legislature calling for the elimination of Communism from the Massachusetts Public School system...
...Allegro, with all its faults, is an impressive effort in a good cause: it is the latest sortie in that well-nigh-won revolution against cloak-and-daguerreotype operetta and June-moon musicomedy. In that revolution, Oscar Hammerstein is certainly one of the heroes. He put something like real people into Oklahoma! and Carousel; but Allegro is by far the most realistic of his librettos, by far the most deliberate manifestation of the New Look he gave to musical plays...