Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Nehru spoke a little more moderately: "I have no desire . . . to moralize to anybody. I am deeply conscious of our own failings." But the Nehru line, restated by his alter ego in foreign affairs, Krishna Menon, was unchanged. SEATO is "the modern version of a protectorate," said Menon, dreamed up by imperialistic "outsiders" who were trying to dictate to the peoples of Asia...
...Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat a false religion." A more complex, highbrow version of this mood is expressed by British Historian Arnold Toynbee, who concludes his massive, ten-volume A Study of History* with the finding that the West can be saved from atomic war and utter downfall only by a renewed Christian faith...
...master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...
...Egypt's ex-King Farouk interrupted his leering and prancing long enough to roll into a fashionable nightclub, where he drew up a chair beside an old Manhattan cabaret songstress named Spivy, bellowed duets with her for an hour and topped off the act with a Swiss yodeling version of Don't Fence Me In. Spivy's impression of Farouk's yodeling: "Squeaking in a high falsetto...
...Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises him with her apron strings. This may make Love Is Eternal the ideal woman's home companion, but scarcely good history. In the main, Author Stone rushes about in his chosen role of literary...