Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradually, in the areas where the schools were closed, and among the thoughtful people in the South generally, the full implications of the school closing began to soak in. Seen close up, the school closings turned out to be more than a defiance of integration, more than a legal stratagem. They turned out, in action, to be the Governor of a state seizing autocratic, political control of highly prized, independent local school systems. They turned out to be a real and forbidding threat to the competent education of youngsters in a sharply competitive national society. In short, they turned...
...They are seen everywhere in West Germany these days: plump, well-barbered, aggressive men, their eyes alert for opportunity or slightly lidded after a heavy meal. They travel from factory to bank to hotel in chauffeur-driven Mercedes 3005's; their women are gowned by Dior, Heim, Balenciaga. Liveried servants attend them at banquets in redecorated medieval castles. They are the new German millionaires, whose energy, efficiency and shrewdness have contrived, organized and engineered the astonishing miracle of West Germany's economic rise from the ashes...
...Sunday school, Gene Skerbeck has the last word: "It used to be that you could take a show into the back country and those people had never seen anything like it. But they've all seen it on TV now. The rubes and the suckers are playing golf now. Oh, I don't say there aren't some rubes left, but where they are I don't know. Sometimes I think the only real suckers left are in the business...
...Wallach, playing Poskrebyshev, Stalin's secretary, exploded and complained that his part had been cut to nothing. "The audience would have a better show if they watched the rehearsals," cracked an amused technician. "There's more drawing aside and whispering here than I've ever seen. Probably more than there ever was in the Kremlin...
...much as it might. Those of the lyrics (by the Kerrs and Joan Ford) which were audible in the second balcony proved unexpectedly graceful. And the whole business is made worthwhile by Agnes de Mille's exhilarating dances, which make you realize that you have not, in fact, seen the whole thing before. Goldilocks would be a delight if only somebody in authority would put the entire evening in the hands of Miss de Mille, and send Mama and Papa Kerr back to the woods...