Word: pas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisdom: What artistic differences put asunder 26 years ago TV joined last week when Dancers Ruth St. Denis, 80 and Ted Shawn, a flabby 66, did a conversational pas de deux for NBC's Wisdom. Though the long-married, long-separated ancients displayed some vigorous dancing form-"Miss Ruth" can still kick up a ripply Oriental routine-they were liveliest when kicking TV. Shawn on TV choreography: "The cameras are so nervous they're always coming up under the girls' skirts or having wind machines or closeups. The camera ought to stay in one spot...
...they concluded that the weather was not right for an invasion when it came; they canceled a routine E-boat patrol that might have discovered the coming attack; and they swallowed the carefully planted notion that General Patton was waiting to turn a whole Army group loose on the Pas de Calais. To meet the Pas de Calais attack that never came, the Germans kept 19 divisions at the ready that might have made Utah and Omaha a disaster for the Allies...
...there was a gala independence ball in the marbled hall of the new Statehouse, where the Negro Prime Minister of Ghana, after assiduous practice beforehand, held the aunt of the Queen of England in his arms and danced a brief but sprightly pas de deux to the tune of Gotta Be This or That...
Postwar Politics: Elected mayor of Arras and Deputy for Department Pas-de-Calais in 1945; still holds both jobs. Challenged Socialist Party leadership because it had "lost touch with militants"; succeeded to secretary-generalship, won complete control in 1946; served as minister without portfolio under Premier Leéon Blum. As a Socialist, stoutly opposes Communists ("They are not left but East...
...recognize the King of a foreign power. His act is consistent with those of small and nearsighted politicians who allow themselves to be duped by their minority advisers. At a time when our Government is straining to find a solution to Middle East problems, he committed a faux pas which will be taken as an indication of a nation divided on foreign policy. I think President Eisenhower's decision to meet King Saud shows Mayor Wagner and all Americans what true statesmanship entails. LOUIS FAKHOURY Pasadena, Calif...