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...father was a Russian Jew who loved this country because it gave him a chance to live like a decent human" being. I was blessed with a mother who knew no boundaries of race or religion, especially when other people were in trouble. My grammar-school and high-school teachers taught me to love good sportsmanship. They taught what they were, even more than what they knew...
...programs. Then, back at the bar again, the girl herself (Hilda Moses Simms) swished in. What stopped them first was her beauty. But what held them the next minute was her born stage presence, and as the scenes unfolded, the skill to create a character. The girl found a decent boy who married her; loving him and knowing her own perverse, unquenchable nature, she left him, went back to the streets, died classically by throwing herself in the river. More of the time than seemed possible, she remained persuasive. And an unusually talented company backed...
...about the abominable dictatorships that we have in our own American backyard. Your recent attitude (TIME, May 15) toward the ferocious methods of the Salvadorean tyrant, Martinez, helped immensely to awaken the patriotic spirit of the Salvadorean people enabling them to regain their freedom and the sacred right to decent living. The downfall of Dictator Martinez represents the first democratic victory of the United Nations in American territory...
...good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book. The net result was an unprecedented string of fancy-figure flops-My Dear Public, Jackpot, Artists and Models, Allah Be Praised...
...faculty should be put on a full-time basis with "decent salaries. . . . They should be free to engage in any outside activities they like. To make sure that the ones they like are . . . good for them ... all their outside earnings [should go] to the University...