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...Entreves finds in the U.S. the heritage of the eighteenth century. Europe, he believes, has grown jaded and disillusioned, and, prima facie, Europe may appear to American eyes almost Machiavellian. America, he maintains, still believes in the "nobility of savages" and the potentiality for human sincerity. Like the eighteenth century, the U.S. contains the qualities of optimism and the defects of naivete...
...slight advantage of swimming in a shorter pool could give the Crimson victories in any or all of these events, despite Springfield's prima facie superiority...
...account is thus personal rather than institutional. White says, "the Senate is in a sense a high assembly but in a deeper sense it is a great and unique human consensus of individual men." And so he looks at the Senate, ninety-six inscrutable prima donnas, "with all its strengths and weaknesses rather as one would try to deal with the story of an extraordinary and significant...
...sense, the casting of Ballerina Beriosova as the female lead was more interesting than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent...
...headlined Variety. Indeed, the 90-minute live Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Maurice Evans and Joan Greenwood, ran behind its opposition with a Trendex rating of 12. And the Ed Sullivan Show fell off eight points to 33 as it featured Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas and Baritone George London in an 18-minute scene from Tosca...