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...such amiably negative remarks as "There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their festivals. The Bang Fai festival just before the monsoon features the shooting off of giant rockets and noisy fertility processions during which huge phalli are brandished at giggling female spectators...
...Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
Finally, the remarkably sensitive work of the small group which performed the chansons deserves mention. Their diction was excellent and they were quick to catch the constantly shifting moods of the songs. Dorothy Barnhouse's contralto was perfectly suited to the solo she sang in Debussy's Quant fai ouy le tabourin. The audience demanded and received an encore of her very moving rendition...
...veteran troops defending the last Axis-held corner of North Africa jabbed out furiously last week and cracked the Allied ring. Panzer divisions, probably some of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, surged against inexperienced artillery and U.S. armored troops holding the westward end of Fai'd Pass (see map). Despite ceaseless rains which have impeded Allied operations, more than 100 Axis tanks with dive-bomber support broke the U.S. line, split into two columns and advanced northwest toward Sidi bou Zid and south toward Gafsa...
...honor you," said Dr. Fai, "as the Second Confucius...