Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though far less fortunate than the plunder of Gricg a few years back, the raid on Borodin produces a few trophics. At worst, there are atmospheric interludes of Hollywood Baghdad music, which permit the "Princesses of Ababu" to cavort around a palace pool obviously built in manual training class. At best, there are agreeable melodies to be ruined by the lyrics, and two lively numbers, "He's In Love" and the first act Finale. In any case, the music helps Kismet to whirl with amiable vulgarity through thirteen scenes, and the New York businessman will probably find the show...
...Bombs for Everybody": "The U.N. felt it would be impolitic for a peace organization to recognize the [New York City air-raid] drill." Impolitic hell! If anyone should be drilling, it should be U.N.ers in their glass house. Can't you just see 5,000 ostriches with their necks buried in piles of glass, yelling: "This is impolitic!" There will be no diplomatic immunity if the bomb comes...
...into a new phase of its history. From the beginning, U.S. foreign policy was conducted with a kind of circus net under it: the worst that could happen did not include wholesale devastation of the country by an enemy. The British, controlling the seas, could blockade and raid the coast (as they did in the War of 1812), but distance prevented any European enemy from dreaming of forcing a decision on the U.S. by sending major forces to this country. As technology narrowed the distance, lessening its protective value, U.S. strength was rising. The worst that the U.S. faced...
...looked as if TV had made a major raid on Hollywood talent. Joan Crawford was on television playing the suffering wife of an unfaithful husband; Marilyn Monroe was cavorting on Jack Benny's show; Ava Gardner, as the mystery guest on a quiz program, was answering embarrassing questions ("Are you married and are you happy about it?"); Loretta Young, Ray Milland and Joan Caulfield were turning up each week on their own programs; Arlene Dahl, Ray Bolger, Agnes Moorehead and young Brandon De Wilde were beginning big TV roles...
...Government . . . Now I am a great believer in a balanced budget. And I kept the Government budget balanced, too, until an emergency came along that was a lot more important than all the balanced budgets in the world ... I should think a first-class Air Force and air-raid defense system . . . would be worth quite a lot to us just now-even if it unbalanced the budget for a while and deferred a tax cut for some years to come. It might even be better for the top-bracket income groups than the money they will make...