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...last time. In its place, proud Ceylonese raised the Golden Lion of Ceylon's own navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship of Ceylon's own eight-vessel navy (also one gunboat, six patrol boats). "This step," said Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz Bandaranaike, "was not taken in a spirit of hostility. Our foreign policy...
...here and there on the stage the story loses a certain inward glow, it gains in outward color from snatches of song or the interplay of street voices. With the performers-particularly George Brenlin as Sean and Aline MacMahon as the mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
...Marilyn grew up, she felt herself-in the shadow of her favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...murmurs of dissent, attempts to guide Stalin along other paths. But the mysterious demise of a number of high Politburo-crats halted any defiance from on high. The result was, says Robert C. Tucker, who spent 5½years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow as an attache, an "inward migration'' of the Russian people. Boredom, cynicism, and mediocrity-what the NKVD called "formalism"-characterized almost all cultural and political life...
...Lady Hurf, who proclaims herself "born a piece of old carpet" and "disintegrating with boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...