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...beard and spectacles, Clifton Webb plays Sousa as a wry, rather pixyish personality. But the role gives ex-Dancer Webb an opportunity to do the two-step, which was introduced in 1890 to the strains of Sousa's Washington Post march. Stars and Stripes Forever hits a few sour notes in its long-winded dialogue stretches, but when it strikes up the band and plays the stuffing out of such rousing Sousa marches as Semper Fidelis and the title tune, it is a spirited show...
...adolescent growing up in Rome, Alessandra Corteggiani wonders how her parents ever happened to marry. Her father is a boor who unfailingly pours the sour wine of shop talk at the evening meal. Her mother is an amateur pianist with an outlook on life as romantic and melancholy as a Chopin nocturne. When Sandra's mother falls in love with an effete aristocrat, Papa Corteggiani crushes her with a phrase or two, e.g., "All women are . . . sluts," and she drowns herself in the Tiber...
Although I am also disappointed at the defeat of Governor Stevenson at the polls last Tuesday, I cannot stomach the brand of sour grape juice served up in your editorial of November 6th in which you analyze the reasons for this defeat...
...More Politics from benumbed Democrats and cheery pronouncements on the finality of the people's choice from the political fence's now greener side, we maintain our gloomy presentments unabashed. It is not simply that our candidate lost, for that is hardly worth the effort of pressing out the sour grapes, but it is the springs of Eisenhower's strength, the very springs that gushed for Democrats in years past, that worry...
...dedicatory "globalunch," where the dishes included räker (peeled shrimp) from Norway, sur sill (sour herring) from Sweden, and topinambours en daube (stew of Jerusalem artichokes) from France, Chairman Ken Parker preached his gospel that tariffs should be abolished by the U.S. and other nations, and free world trade restored. Said he: "Two-way trade with foreign nations ... is the only really practical way to achieve peace on this earth. Two individuals or two communities or two nations who mutually profit from trading with each other do not tend to quarrel...