Word: pardons
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Since there is no appeal from the military tribunal's decision, the only hope of the condemned is President Charles de Gaulle, who is empowered to grant pardon. In a front-page editorial, the moderate newspaper Le Monde asked De Gaulle to show mercy in order to finish "with the germs of civil...
...increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression) well adjusted...
...Pardon me," said an uninitiated Argentine housewife, pointing up at the slender, long-winged aircraft that swooped like hawks over her home on the pampas 160 miles west of Buenos Aires. "Couldn't they stay up longer if they had engines?'' They could indeed. But to the 63 competitors from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit...
There is an obvious risk in presenting such unattractive Jewish characters. Broadway audiences have shown little inclination to take criticism in the past, and without newspaper critics to tell them to take it (and like it), they might, pardon the expression, rebel. Matters are not helped by Miss Gordon, who exaggerates Rona Halpern beyond the demands of farce, and of Walter Matthau who does nothing but impose a televised quality on the Halpern living room. As Berney, however, Anthony Holland ekes out all the sympathy possible and Lily Darvas is similarly good as the grandmother whom the Halperns briefly tolerate...
...preserving the U.S. ideal of a strong and united Europe as part of the cold war alliance. To achieve this aim, the U.S. would certainly have to climb down off some major points of past policy, though there was little readiness to rush to beg De Gaulle's pardon or give him everything he demanded...