Word: refrains
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...city officials deliberately failed to invite Negro leaders to the airport to welcome Blaik and Royall. Mayor Albert Boutwell, an ailing (diabetes) and so far totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside agitators." With that, he led the visitors off to a private lunch at Birmingham's exclusively white sanctuary, "The Club." Then early next morning, two bombs exploded in a Negro district; there were no injuries, though...
...Then Queen Fabiola, 35, suddenly disappeared from view. Callers were politely turned away. King Baudouin showed up stag at parties. Last week the tidings leaked out. The Queen is expecting her first child. And with a history of two miscarriages, her physicians were taking no chances, ordered her to refrain from all activities and spend most of her time...
...apartment in another and offices in all three. The scramble around the infernal triangle jams airports, exhausts the commuters, gives waiting wives grey hairs. Important Brazilians are the hardest-to-find group of people since Atlantis sank. "I'm sorry, he just left for Brasilia" is the familiar refrain of harried secretaries...
...years have passed since Berlin was severed by the Wall. On its anniversary last week, most West Berliners heeded official appeals to refrain from violent, futile demonstrations. Instead, they observed the day quietly by placing wreaths on the dozens of crosses marking each spot where a fleeing East German had been shot to death by Com munist guards. Only late in the evening was the city's grave calm broken by a mob of some 2,000 hell-raising West Berliners who surged into the area around Checkpoint Charlie, hurling rocks and insults across the Wall into the Soviet...
...assigned the protean labor of deviding twenty roles among them. The task of creating four or more characters is a challenge which, unfortunately, none of the performers meets with total success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly...