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...Marti Stevens has been collecting Garland records for a long time, and comparing them with records of the Prohibition Era's Helen Morgan, one of Marti's earliest collecting enthusiasms. She decided that her two favorites had the same vocal knack: "A kind of heartbreak, over-the-rainbow. it's-got-to-happen-tomorrow quality. It kills people. It always kills me." She began to try for the same thing in her own singing...
...novels and paintings. A written form of Creole was devised. Voodoo, which elite laws passed under Catholic pressure had driven underground, was openly tolerated again. Estime dreamed big: schools, hospitals, roads, docks, industrialization. He did succeed in raising wages for black workers. But all he really built was a rainbow-painted fairgrounds for a pathetically unsuccessful 1950 International Exposition. He crippled the U.S.-owned Standard Fruit Co.'s Haitian operation, then found that the country had no banana business left. Meanwhile, official corruption got out of hand; a few insiders got rich quick; word got around that $10 million...
...Music to Help You Sleep offers such sentimental oldies as Beautiful Dreamer, Love Walked In and several more, with a come-hither jacket picture of a redhead in negligee perched on the edge of bed. Columbia's Dream Time Music by Paul Weston offers Embraceable You, Over the Rainbow, Why Shouldn't I?, etc., with a disheveled, shirtless brunette striding through a misty landscape...
...very worst pranks their youngsters have pulled. An early winner: a 2½-year-old who pried open the automatic washer (flooding the house), stuffed dry spaghetti into the electric mixer (burning it out), cut a shirt to shreds with scissors, painted the neighbor's garage a bright rainbow of colors...
Europe's statesmen and its NATO generals can get as far as common-defense plans and frontierless trade patterns. Beyond this, the idea of a unified Europe tends to be a rainbow-colored vision; most Europeans, educated in mutually contradictory nationalisms or ideologies, specify no satisfactory universal basis for it. One of the few who attempt the statement is British Historian Christopher Dawson. "The source of the actual sociological unity which we call Europe," Dawson says flatly, "is Christian culture." His lifelong argument: without educating themselves in their universal Christian cultural foundations, Europeans will never grasp why their continent...