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...most striking feature of this production is a complete stylistic consistency, which is the hardest virtue to achieve in a period piece like this. Surely this is partly due to the fact that most of the cast have been playing together now for several seasons, and have developed a sort of repertory-company feeling of ensemble. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirlwind butler (Robert Jordan '59) capture the proper unified style in both word and gesture...
...held the balance of power on the Levantine coast since the days of the Crusaders, Camille Chamoun cannot appeal for a defiance of Moslems in a way that a homogeneous state such as Israel can. Chamoun stands instead for that Lebanese tradition that turned its divisions to another sort of strength, the tradition of religious tolerance and political balance that built up commercial prosperity and cultural progress for Christians and Moslems alike. Chosen President of his country by the tradition that assigns that office to a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect, Chamoun had to beware of turning Lebanon...
Both sides consulted astrologers and soothsayers (U Nu sent his favorite astrologer to India to check his findings with expert colleagues). Deputies were exhorted to drink "oath water" proffered by Buddhist monks, vowing allegiance to one side or the other. The opposition accused U Nu of being the sort of man "who, to gain power, would dig for buried treasure in his father's forehead," and charged him with entering an "unholy alliance" to deliver Burma to the Communists. Nu's supporters struck back by reviling Swe and Nyein as "American stooges" who wanted to force Burma into...
...invested with the virtue of awakening the sleeper to his peril." ¶When Reston said De Gaulle's ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American 'liberals' " apparently prefer chaos to De Gaulle. ¶ "Remarkable" was Reston's word for a commencement address by Adlai E. Stevenson, which called...
...girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course, is the poor shrimp...