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...typical wee-hour outpouring of words and schemes one day last week, Fidel Castro sat from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. with a Brazilian newsman and delivered a broadside of dictates. On democracy: "It never functioned in Latin America. Elections are a myth. The parliamentary system in Cuba reflected the old system, which we are now destroying. Elections now would be a step backward, with time and effort wasted in sterile discussions and theoretical considerations." On the economy: "Our aim is total direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Elections Are a Myth | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Bridal Path. In a kilt-edged romp, Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers is back in the heather highlands, rolling his rs downhill toward laughing low-roaders in the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...wee review o' a flic callit The Bridal Path [Dec. 28] werr itsel' a bit o' a clish-maclaverlie skirling indeed, indeed. Wha' wi' a' tha ap'str'phes an' dooble-Gaelic an' sich orrtheaugraficul odditees as wuid baefuddle e'en tha quare English boobies tae tha sooth, a mon cuid reedie feind 'is puir Glengarry a muckle addled amoong a' tha thistly syntax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...wee chortle daes a body nae mischief, laddies; an' I ken ye by yer mumpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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