Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...words fail to paper over the growing evidence of deep ideological disagreement. In place of the flat 1957 assertion that the Russian Communist Party plays the "leading role in the Socialist movement," the new document merely observes that historically the Russian party is "universally recognized as the.vanguard of the world Communist movement." As if to underline Red China's view that Moscow has a primacy only in time, the Peking party daily Jen Min Jih Pao editorialized that henceforth all Communist parties are "completely equal and independent." Instead of talking of the "monolithic unity of the Socialist camp...
Camelot (book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White) could scarcely fail to suffer from its huge pre-Broadway buildup, its reported $3,000.000 advance sale and, above all, the comparison with its Lerner-Loewe predecessor, My Fair Lady. But Camelot suffers from something more than ballyhoo; its real trouble is not its failing to live up to extravagant expectations but its not living up to itself...
...Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just...
...unhealthiness of this year's season is all the more tragic because off-Broadway represents the main hope for original theater in America. It costs too much to fail on Broadway; the risks make creativity too expensive. Off-Broadway, however, a production can be launched economically, and thus financial criteria needn't be the ultimate standards for new work. The loss would be great if the box office became more important than the stage off-Broadway...
When Foundation support fail to materialize this Fall, the program committee was forced to make a to revision of its plans--to draw up entirely new guest list. On a limit budget, they could not afford to transportation costs to bring from Asia, Africa, and America, as originally planned. The had to rely almost exclusively on resentatives of these continents happened to be in the United State this Fall...