Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum of dining room repartee, heavily reliant on puns about sex. The satirical moments succeed only once, when the characters rush together for a group picture...
...would all this force really be effective against the will of 3,000,000 blacks, Sir Robert Armitage was asked. He replied: "I doubt it." The sad, familiar communiques had begun: because of the threat of trouble, "security forces had been obliged to open fire," and the casualty lists followed. Force could not make Nyasaland accept the domination it feared from Southern Rhodesia. Many predicted the end of federation. But this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa...
...horrendous basketball will close tonight when the varsity entertains favored Yale on the I.A.B. floor at 8:30 p.m. If the Crimson is hot, the year-long frustration it has suffered will be somewhat mollified, for a win over Yale would at least put a happy ending on a sad story...
...favorite party game of U.S. baiting, Khrushchev attacked the U.S.'s "positions of strength" policy. Retorted U.S. Ambassador Riddleberger: "I had some personal experience with Soviet efforts to act from a position of strength. I was in Berlin during the blockade." Khrushchev switched to deploring the sad plight of the workers in the capitalist U.S. When Riddleberger countered that U.S. workers were in fact pretty well off, Khrushchev rumbled that Riddleberger had no connection with the working class. Replied the ambassador: "I have been a farm hand, bricklayer and house painter. I think I had just about as much...
...Rifleman. All the rest of the top ten are oldtimers, and apart from the Danny Thomas Show, they are all westerns. Reaching charitably down into the top 30, Variety records a few new "nervous" hits, e.g., Peter Gunn, The Texan. But TV's winter statistics make up a sad list of dead and dying shows...