Word: nones
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Club Without Rules. In legal terms the Commonwealth simply represents "the lowest common denominator of consent." It has no constitution or common law applicable to all members; none is pledged to come to the defense of any of the others. There are no obligations or set meetings, no voting procedures or joint policies, and no stated method of .applying for admittance or of being rejected...
...went, was true: the Western powers had not compromised their legal or physical position in West Berlin, and though they had been shouldered dangerously close to de facto recognition of Communist East Germany, they had clung to their refusal to grant formal diplomatic recognition to the East Germans. But none of this altered the fact that as the weeks went by, the Western performance at Geneva had been one of foot-shuffling irresolution...
...efforts to make sure that his favorite son, Seif el Islam el Badr, gets the Imamate when the old man dies. Crown Prince Badr is a nice young man, introduced by Egypt's Nasser to anti-imperialist slogans and Russian technicians, but thus far Badr has displayed none of the bloodthirsty toughness required to seize and keep the Imamate. Three months ago. suffering from arthritis, rheumatism and heart trouble, the Imam traipsed off to Italy for a rest cure, traveling light with only one wife and one concubine (the other women in the entourage, explained an aide...
...years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy" moving from glossy front-room comedy to boudoir farce...
...contain a lot of junk. For example, the fields of scratches that constituted Robert Partin's "Offing" and "In the Rain" surely did not merit showing. Nor did William Tokeshi's field of dashes; Tokeshi labeled it "No Title," and small wonder. Prizes of $250 went to four works, none of which was outstanding...