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...currently on Broadway). It chronicles a summer in a Midwestern household which proves a particularly disturbing summer for the family's twelve-year-old son. Young Willie at times achieves a new awareness of some of the facts (and fictions) of life, and at other times has awareness thrust upon...
...Sympathy. But where, in Tea and Sympathy, a bewildered boy was caught up violently in action, it is of inaction that he is the victim here. And deprived of melodrama, Playwright Anderson is driven into sentimentality. One of the things that Willie (engagingly played by Clay Hall) has thrust upon him is an undue aura of gallantry and affirmation. On the other hand, he has none of the imagination and humor of such another sensitive and bewildered child as the heroine of The Member of the Wedding...
...spirit, the pact itself was an important new tie between the East and the West. Beyond that, its preamble and a separate "Pacific Charter" signed at the same time reasserted the eight nations' belief in the principles of "self-determination" and "self-government" for all nations. This thrust at colonialism unquestionably improved the U.S. and Western relationship with the Asian peoples...
...Dubucq de Rivery (1763-1817), cousin of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, had passivity thrust upon her. Abducted by Corsairs while en route home to Martinique from a convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived...
...pocket they found another sheaf of papers-an extraordinary farewell letter. It proved to be a calculated and deadly thrust against his foes. "Once more," it began, "the forces and interests against the people are newly coordinated and raised against me." He blasted with equal fervor his political opponents and foreign enterprises in Brazil. Only at the end did Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering...