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That was the pillbox war that had died with Dienbienphu, and now General Cogny's theme was "consolidation for offensive action elsewhere." So the men of the column hauled down the French and Vietnamese flags; they planted explosives; they withdrew the garrisons (with their furniture and pots and pans...
Notable example: the textile-and-banking Jafets. currently headed by Vargas-Backer Ricardo Jafet. But many a Lebanese in Brazil is simply a backhands pots-and-pans trader. Of such, Brazilians are currently singing a popular samba : Hallah, hallah, hallah, Have pity on Abdallah; Up and down the hills he...
"See the garrulous others, also, gabbing and garlanded from one nest of culture-vultures to another: people selling the English way of life and condemning the American way as they swig and guzzle through it; people resurrecting the theories of surrealism for the benefit of remote parochial female audiences who...
¶ Acids and bleaches, which "scour the inside of little stomachs just as ruthlessly as they clean mother's pots and pans."
This attitude affects newspaper criticism as well as audience opinion. The newspaper critic, says Kerr, "finds that if he's seen a 'soso' play or a 'nice little show,' he can't say it that way in print. He has to come from the...