Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regrettably, modern warfare does not allow for a policy of pure defense. To be valid, any "line" theory must take into account activities on the other side of the line, such as pre-invasion troop concentrations and other threatening actions. With this in mind, the President has suggested that action might be taken if the Communists attempt to seize the key islands of Quemoy and Matsu. But he has not made this policy explicit, and to a certain extent has opened United States planning to the very charges of vagueness which it is now trying to avoid. For this reason...
...join his government. Mendès now concedes that in his first days as Premier he moved too fast, and did not lay proper groundwork for Socialist cooperation. The issues that attracted them (IndoChina, North Africa, EDC) are now disposed of; some of his proposed economic reforms may prove pure hemlock to the Socialists...
...adapting Shakespeare to the screen have filled the nation's reviewing columns. But no agreement has been forth-coming on what should be the proper compromise between the author's original intentions and the alternate treatment made possible, if not mandatory, by modern movie techniques. Those who advocate pure Shakesperean theatre will be able to find many flaws in Director Renato Castellani's new production of Romco and Juliet; those who are willing to accept the more or less necessary changes imposed by the movie from will consider it a generally good adaptation. There will be no quibble with...
...dancing, English. After a year, they are graduated to the chorus (pay: 10,000 yen a month, or $27.77). The 30 stars make ten times that much. The girls wear blue jeans, sweaters, and horsetail hairdos in school, do their own housekeeping and live by a motto:'"Be pure, be right, be beautiful." Their glamorous aura of unattainableness makes them idols to millions of Japanese fans...
...Pure Farce. Modern readers will find that The Lion holds up remarkably well. Its plot is pure farce, involving a phony British nobleman's quest for the hand of an American heiress, a social-climbing American mother, and a visiting English lady named Mrs. Wollope, who like Mrs. Trollope is collecting data on the domestic manners of the Americans. In the course of the play, Colonel Wildfire helps rout the phony nobleman-and Mrs. Wollope as well. Sample dialogue...