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...ancient Annamite emperors, who had collaborated with the Japanese, and later with Ho Chi Minh. In 1948, the French asked Bao Dai to return to Indo-China as chief of state for Viet Nam. In March 1949, the French gave Bao Dai's state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came...
...first at a three hour luncheon conference to discuss progress made by Brown in setting up the framework of the unofficial national fund drive. Later in the afternoon, they held a second meeting with undergraduate members of the Harvard College Theater Committee...
Within this carefully limited framework, the message proposed that the Federal Government should help combat the problems of 1) uneven distribution of medical facilities (only four or five hospital beds per 1,000 persons ip some states, with ten or eleven in others), and 2) high medical costs (some 10% of American families spend more than $500 a year for medical care, and the national average is $200). Said the message: "While continuing to reject Government regulation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving...
...Hers (by Fay & Michael Kanin) uses a comic framework as neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...
...Cocktail Party was an attempt to synthesize current mores and, more exactly, modern theories of psychology with the Medieval framework of faith, reason, and salvation, The Confidential Clerk tries to dramatize the paradox of free will with recent thinking on heredity and parental discipline. In the process of fitting together the old world, of philosophy with the age of data, Eliot usually manufactures his dramatic conflict largely in the mind of the spectator rather than in action of the characters. The Confidential Clerk in this respect, depends even more on the symbolic clash of ideas than did The Cocktail Party...