Word: triumphalism
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...current program gives us Miss Hayes and Mr. Evans (both a bit insecure in their lines on opening night) trying vainly to recapture the aura of their 1940 production of Twelfth Night together. It suggests nothing so much as the U.S.S. Caine's Captain Queeg trying to relive his triumphal solution of the bygone cheese theft when a quart of fresh Strawberries was unaccounted for. "Shakespeare Revisited" is Shakespeare recidivous...
...opposing Moslem F.L.N. factions opened up on each other with everything but bullets. While moderate Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda tried to spread his influence from Algiers to the southeast, his bitter rival, radical Vice Premier ben Bella, entered western Algeria for a triumphal march to Oran. After a brief stop at Marnia, his birthplace near the Moroccan border, Ben Bella and his ever-lengthening motorcade drove on to the city of Tlemcen (pop. 80,000). Thousands of veiled women and turbaned men lined the streets, while hundreds of pigtailed little girls in the national colors-white dresses, red sashes, green kerchiefs...
Last week everything seemed ready for the triumphal return home. Then Ebtehaj himself provoked more trouble. He demanded written assurances that the conditions of the bond permitted him to vacation at Iran's Caspian Sea resorts...
...drive for re-election was in high gear. "Bush for Senate" stickers studded walls at Republican headquarters. From Hartford's Bond Hotel, his campaign staff passed out buttons and bumper strips, ordered placards for his triumphal renomination at the Connecticut G.O.P...
...counting, as most Austrians do not, Adolf Hitler's triumphal arrival in the Austrian capital after the Anschluss, on March...