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Teacher: He didn't see.m like a person? Girl: No. A white robe and blue hair-floating around...
...found that the Communists had brought with them a rival deity, the Panchen Lama. Last summer both Lamas journeyed to Peking to attend the First National People's Congress (TIME. Sept. 27). At a cocktail party a visiting British newsman met the Dalai Lama, wearing a saffron robe and a large collection of fountain pens, and asked him for his autograph. As the Dalai Lama obliged, the Panchen Lama, who was present at the party, reached over and signed also. Said the Dalai Lama, sternly pointing to his own signature: "Dalai Lama first. Dalai Lama top man." Last week...
Probably you were actuated by good intentions, but the expression "tribe," like "native," is objectionable to us Africans and especially to Nigerians from densely-populated and well-established societies. What you describe as "tribal" robe is more correctly one kind of national robe or dress, and although I happen to be an Owerri Ibo, and a hereditary leader or chieftain from Obibi-Ezena, a territory in Owerri Division, my hopes for the future are for one Nigerian nation...
Actor Burton, the young British player who made his first big U.S. success in The Robe, does his best, which is never less than vivid, to sustain the early tone; and Moss Hart's script lends him a hand. Drama strides the scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes...
...Robe (1953), $19 million (estimated total revenue...