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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a reporter asked: "How's your cold?" the President's health became the principal topic for discussion. "Almost three years ago," said he, "I contracted a bronchitis which finally seems to have developed and become chronic. And so every slight cold has a sort of multiplied effect on me." That is why, he said ironically, "I seek the warm weather and sun." He added that he had the flu before he went to California in October. "I called it flu. Whether the doctor did or not,*I don't think I ever asked him. Anytime...
...hear them talk, the four nations gathered at Vaduz last week had the sort of grievances that often lead to war. One of them, with a swollen population of 25,000 to the half square mile, desperately needs Lebensraum. Another has the largest number of Communists per capita in Western Europe, and civil strife is frequent. A third has constant border troubles with its neighbors, who seek to change the nation's traditional way of life...
...matter how many champagne and caviar parties a couple's friends may throw afterward, this sort of ceremony is no longer enough to satisfy the romantic yearnings of the Khrushchev generation. In the Estonian university town of Tartu, Registrar lime Toots had lately made quite a name for herself by providing a piano and a mixed chorus to sing Say It with Flowers to Me. Couples from all over Estonia flock to lime Toots, particularly on those great occasions Russians deem especially propitious for weddings, May Day and the Nov. 7 anniversary of the Communist Revolution...
Take Me Along could do with more dancing, but a gay Aubrey Beardsley ballet, a sort of absinthe-coated peppermint stick, wickedly whirls all Actor Morse's callow, adolescent sex fantasies-Salome and George Sand, Lysistrata and Camille -into one. As the show proceeds, certain scenes are repeated, certain songs are reprised. But from the outset, Take Me Along puts its trust in mood rather than momentum. Rather than shattering the funny bone, ravishing the ear or dazzling the eye, it just leaves a nice taste in the mouth...
Heartbreak House has always had its advocates as one of Shaw's most important plays. Certainly Shaw himself meant it to be important. A formidably long work, it had to do, Shaw announced, with "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I: it was to be a sort of Shavian Cherry Orchard. Thus frankly symbolic, it portrays the kind of people, the ways of living and the states of mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop...