Word: puppetized
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...rate (61% for males, 17% for females). Yet this fall, as Governor Sir Hubert Ranee tried hard to set up a native government, the Burmese broke out in a rash of major strikes and riots. Disturbances crystallized last month into violently opposed factions, one led by a former Japanese puppet, U Aung San, the other by a self-styled Communist, U Than Tun. These two young (31) men have similar political and personal backgrounds; in fact, they married sisters. Last month in Rangoon, Communist Than Tun told a TIME correspondent: "Aung San and I are not on speaking terms...
...speech even approaching dissent came from Delegate Dragolyub Yovanovic, recently expelled from Tito's puppet Peasant Party. Yovanovic said the bill was "perfect"-but that since it affected everybody in Yugoslavia it should first be submitted to a plebiscite. Then he too voted for immediate adoption of a measure which brought full socialization to the westernmost point it has yet reached...
...puppet show a chorus of 30 puppets sang...
Absurd as it is, the opera contains some of Mozart's most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel...
Simple Solution. Hoxha's war-born, Soviet-style regime had never been officially recognized by Britain or the U.S. An American mission had recommended recognition, provided that the Albanian Government would honor routine prewar U.S.-Albanian treaties. Hoxha rejected this condition (accepted by his fellow-puppet Tito) and accused U.S. officials of conspiring against his Government...