Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation," Khrushchev said graciously, responding to the President's coolly proper speech of greeting. "The Soviet people want to live in friendship with the American people." But Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev was not five minutes into his speech or 15 minutes into the U.S. before he sounded a prideful note of power that was to echo, sometimes blaring, sometimes muted, as the dominant theme of his trip. "Shortly before this meeting with you, Mr. President," he said, "the Soviet scientists, technicians, engineers and workers filled our hearts with joy by launching a rocket to the moon. We have no doubt...
...Cannot Find Words." In mid-meal Mrs. Khrushchev passed up a note to her husband informing him that there had been a change in schedule for that afternoon: the Khrushchevs were not going to be driven to Disneyland, as they had requested, because the city police could not guarantee their safety. Disneyland is in another county. The city police had added that nobody agreed with them more than Khrushchev's own security detail...
...Manhattan to see his grandchildren, Harry S. Truman took note of the Umbrella Man, Dracula, and the rest of New York's juvenile delinquents, thought he knew the real trouble. "Spare the rod and spoil the child is what we've been doing for two generations," said old-fashioned Harry. "The peachtree switch and mother's slipper are the best things in the world to make a kid behave." Had he felt either? Grinned Truman: "Both...
...Federalist Party first took note of Quincy after his flaming July 4th oration in 1798, which lambasted the French Directory and its attitude toward the fledgling United States. Edmund Quincy, Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed...
...Streetcar Named Desire, the better of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, forced director Rabb out of the realm where he belongs. Determined to find a "new" interpretation, Rabb supplied a long program note full of fuzzy theorizing and such ideas as: "Awe is antithetical to pity. Pity is indecisive; in awe there is no escape." In stripping Blanche DuBois of her nobility and routing out all traces of pity for her, Rabb distorted the play out of all proportion. As Blanche, Cavada Humphrey fought a losing battle, and was the only cast member even to attempt mastering a Southern accent...