Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...County; Joseph W. wants to be representative from the eleventh Bristol district; Thomas E. Jr. is running for a commissioner's seat in Essex County, and Miss Mary Kennedy will try to break the Republican stranglehold on the Sixth Congressional District. Obviously, the Kennedys of Massachusetts cannot lose-except to each other...
...more affluent and educated Negroes pull out, the county's Negro population is becoming poorer and more restless. The whites are left with a heavier tax burden to carry-and a greater fear as well. Says one Negro leader: "There wouldn't have been a bloc vote, except the white people chose to make an issue of it. Now there will be a bloc...
Jacques Offenbach's score for La Belle Helene has probably never been equalled by anybody except Offen-bach. It is "music so French," said James Agate, "that it needed a German Jew to write it:" irrepressible and irresistible music, subtly mischievous, knowing, deft, and inexhaustibly high-spirited. It alone is worth the price of admission to the Arts Center, which is very fortunate since it alone is nearly all that this venture has to recommend...
...white-blonde, gorgeous, and unquestionably a mammal; she can launch my ships anytime. But she has been constrained (by the script, perhaps, or by Mr. Marre, or by her own predilections) to play Helen with an icy hauteur that eliminates the possibility of any emotional response from the audience except pure lust. Perhaps it is too much to ask, but it would be nice to have a Helen who is likable as well as desirable. On her own terms, however, Miss Diener acts quite well enough, and her singing is not unpleasant...
More and more, this is the season of "TV to Read a Good Book By." Except for the Republican Convention, there is precious little this week beyond 1 ) reruns and 2) specious summer fill...