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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long suspicious of De Gaulle's fondness for grandeur, the British government early decided that it preferred him to a government run by paratroop colonels or to the old harebrained parliamentary system, which proclaimed its loyalty to the Atlantic alliance but was often a drag on it. Some British officials nonetheless feared that he might renew his vision of France Alone, and try to negotiate separately with the Soviet Union...
...backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble. Long ago, Tito, from painful experience, warned Nasser against ever letting himself get too financially dependent on Russia. Old Pro Tito's current advice is said to be that Nasser should steady down, and not risk the peace so often with propaganda and subversion...
...choosing in a world where all taste was poor taste, Vag naturally felt sullen. To belong in such an environment would require too much of a sacrifice. The inhibited perspective cultivated since school days was too ingrained to be surmounted. And the healthy pre-occupations which he too often witnessed down by the Charles violated the precious ethic of this well-mannered...
Although the play is often presented, rarely is a production seen with the obvious craftsmanship and creativity of the present one. Director Basil Langton has fully realized the author's attempt to give flesh to a social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar...
...although the individual performances in this production are memorable, especially those of Miss Dunbar and Mr. Hill, the large credit for its overall excellence belongs with the director. He gives the play unity, motion, and best of all, the sense so often lost that the actors really are speaking to each other--the essence of drama...