Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From our experiences in the first World War, we knew how important it was to give one man the responsibility of organizing and leading troops of different nations. Should present-day France, if I may say this in passing, perhaps resort to the same solution by giving one man, or better, a small team, temporary power to reform its political institutions, which, as everyone agrees, are unsound...
...Mauritanians' action was inspired not so much by hatred for France ("No one," the Emir assured the press, "can say that Mauritania has been exploited by France. On the contrary, it is for her a burden") as the Moors' fear of being part of a tighter West African Federation that might be dominated by Negroes. Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men." Nevertheless, as both Rabat and Paris realized, the four defecting delegates had given Mohammed...
High Morale. Nothing about the appearance of Fidel's force would lead me to think it could fight, but so far this motley army has not been subdued by Batista's 29,000 men. Part of the reason, says Castro ironically, is that the government's "soldiers are not convinced of the justice of their work." More seriously, he goes on to say: "If they had been fighting for an ideal, they could have beaten us 30 times. But no man is supposed to die for $35 a month...
...Say, Darling (by Richard and Marian Bissell and Abe Burrows; songs by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) is a sort of part-time musical made from a book (Say, Darling) that described how a big-time musical was made from a book (7? Cents). This carrying The Pajama Game into extra innings works out fairly agreeably on the whole. Compared to its bookform pokes at show business, Say, Darling is now using a softball. But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps...
...Say, Darling is otherwise no more than reasonably good entertainment, partly from a failure of nerve-there are far more cliches about show business than genuine touches. But this is partly, too, a failure of verve; Say, Darling needs scenes where hilarity really snowballs and nonsense mounts. It needs, for the show-within-the-show, either far better music, or far worse. If accuracy was no touchstone, lunacy should have been...