Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before, the government had arrested and exiled Dr. Hastings Banda, the Pied Piper of Nyasa nationalism. To justify its action, the government had hinted at an African plot to massacre the whites. Yet, as of week's end, not one white in Nyasaland had been touched, but 43 blacks had been killed and another 400 detained or exiled...
...picture above, customer, store manager, and salesman discuss the sale of a television set. The film's plot concerns store's use of advertising "comeon" which turn out to be fictional or misleading...
...credit, however, does not go to the plot or to the dialogue. The first is a displaced Agatha Christie murder mystery which would have found its logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum...
...attract the public to the student architectural exhibition, the structure will be lighted at night and the plot will be landscaped this summer...
Over the weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action