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...grandiose tours such as Khrushchev's are subject to the law of diminishing returns, and Khrushchev's second coming could not alter the fact that their experience with the Chinese Reds has caused Asians to look with a skeptical eye on Communists, whether they bear gifts...
...classical, dramatic talents in mind (she is semi-retired). In La Fille, noted London critics, he had done something different-"an open-air, sunlit ballet as perfect of its kind as the moonlit Sylvia or Ondine or the chandeliered La Valse." But the enthusiastic response did not alter Ashton's gloomy estimate of the ballet public. "I feel," said he, "that most people still think choreography is something to do with the feet-like chiropody...
...constitution ("It may take years, and I may not live to see it, but I intend to push forward until I die"). He proposes to make the Emperor again "head of state" instead of merely a symbol, to have provincial governors appointed by Tokyo instead of elected, and to alter the House of Councilors-Japan's Senate-by substituting a number of appointed "distinguished citizens" for some of the elected members. He also aims at erasing Article IX of the constitution ("Land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential will never be maintained...
...pouring out his love to the girl in accents of passion. Did he know, asked the girl, that she had poisoned his mother? He did not. But he remembered, of course, that she had shot his father dead in that same room not six months before. Did that alter his feelings? It did not. At scene's end, the happy couple sprawled in warm embrace while the young lady mused: "Is this the same divan where your father bled to death...
...abroad is not a policy but a performance in lieu of a policy" there is still much that can be gained by the venture. While the President can not hope to match the performance put on in 1956 by the traveling sideshows of B. and K., he can conceivably alter the common image of a faltering and indecisive U.S., which seems to have permeated the East recently. Indeed the mere visit of the President on his Grand Tour through the countries of Asia is to them heartening evidence of American interest in their problems...