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...bishop conjectured that America is in danger of losing its sense of humor. "What kind of a spectacle are we becoming?" he asked. "If we Americans could stand off in space and look at this foolishness, the mad, merry search for the spotlight that has been going on for two or three years in the name of antiCommunism, I think our native sense of humor-our ability to laugh at ourselves, to recognize that we had been taken in-would save us, if nothing else...
...sopranos; the name role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...
...political issue that the U.S. regards as most urgent-Communist penetration in Latin America, specifically in Guatemala-seems to have discouragingly little appeal for the neighboring republics. With few exceptions, they regard Communism as an internal problem, and some will even resist, as "intervention," U.S. efforts to turn the spotlight on Guatemala's influential Reds. Unless Secretary Dulles and his men can do an expert, tactful job of persuasion, the Latinos may be inclined simply to place on record a piously anti-Communist resolution, similar to the one adopted at Bogota in 1948, and let it go at that...
...voted to grant a union shop to the Basic Steel industry. For this he was blasted on the floor of Congress for being in the pay of the unions. Dunlop has a hard time explaining what it's like to be under the hostile glow of the public spotlight. "Unless you've had a blowtorch put down your throat," he says, "you don't know how it feels. Their whole national propaganda machine is focused on you. You're the s.o.b...
...stage lights dimmed, drums rolled and a red spotlight played on Mac as Aal raised his rifle that night last week. Crack -and one ball was down; crack-and nothing happened. Would Aal go on after missing with one shot? He did. The third ball fell, and the audience sighed its relief. When the fourth ball dropped, the audience was roaring applause. Then the fifth shot rang out, and again no ball fell...