Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab refugee children in UNRWA's Gaza camps. Indian troops volunteered to relieve Danes, Norwegians, Canadians, Swedes, Brazilians and Colombians of their guard duty for the Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after another said: 'This is an army of peace.' And, by God, it has sown the seed of peace in their minds-even among newcomers...
...years ago a pro-Communist Ihdian M.P. named Anup Singh organized the "Asian Solidarity Committee" to influence the first Afro-Asian conference at Bandung (TIME, May 2, 1955). Last year Singh approached Nasser, suggested a conference in Cairo as a suitable sequel to Bandung. It was a play on words. The delegates to the Bandung conference had been official representatives of their nations, many of them heads of their governments. The delegates to the Cairo conference officially represented nobody but themselves. Unofficially, the moving spirits among them represented world Communism and its sympathizers...
...Play to while away the long Connecticut nights...
...pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears, and only occasionally, thanks to Shirley's skill, do they draw laughter. Their play is every bit as tedious as it is unpalatable...
...places Actress Booth proves a sort of show-within-a-show, or a rewarding actress without one. With a look, a gesture, an intonation, she can be remarkably eloquent; but in the end the play, and even the part, is too much for her. Having taken on Miss Isobel after the hardly less piffling The Desk Set, she should next time try something more than the audience's patience...