Word: prospered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prosper Merimee novella rather than from the encrustation of operatic melodramatics that have come to form the accepted Carmen style, Barrault restored to brimming life the tale of the gypsy charmer and the innocent soldier she dupes into loving her. "The story," says Barrault, "is tragedy rather than melodrama. It is a human tragedy, surrounded by a society that is so caught up in its own dance of life that it is indifferent to the suffering of others...
...noncandidacy at a time when the Governor prefers to remain committed, at least in public, to George Romney. Lindsay's refusal to cooperate hurts Rockefeller's credibility, and to whatever extent that the New York Governor's national prospects suffer, Lindsay's may prosper. Last week Rockefeller publicly asked Lindsay and his subordinates to end the eulogization. Lindsay replied disingenuously that he could not regulate his aide's private activities. Then at week's end he said New York Republicans will support Senator Jacob Javits as a favorite...
Half comedy, half drama, Flim Flam is really two films that, superimposed, tend to cancel each other out. The drama tries for realism, indicts mankind for the universal greed and gullibility upon which parasites like the Flim Flam Man prosper. But the actors who play his prey all deliver caricatures instead of portraits in a gallery of outlandish Southern yahoos such as never dwelt outside Dogpatch...
...view may be somewhat unrealistic, considering the constant pining of the refugees for their homeland. In fact, one trouble is the profoundly emotional and irrational nature of many of the Arab demands and expectations?almost an inability to recognize the hard facts of life. The Arabs have seen Israel prosper on soil from which they barely scratched a living when they had it; Israel's success is not only a blow to their pride but a constant rebuke to the dismal poverty in which most of the Arab world lives...
...made, and many feel that the present crisis is the very time to try to start with the hitherto unsolvable plight of the refugees. However the crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment and live within its means; it now spends a third of its national budget on defense...