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Poor old Humbert Humbert met a host of problems during his pursuit of Lolita, but they were nothing compared with those faced by the optimists intent on adapting Vladimir Nabokov's novel to the musical stage. Dropped as "too ripe" was Annette Ferra, 15 (TIME, March 1). Into the role went Denise Nickerson, 13, who opened as the nifty nymphet in Boston last week. "I can play a sexpot as well as anybody," she told an interviewer, but first-night critics had their reservations. Said one: "She smiles and speaks and sings like a sweet ten-year...
Mellowed cheese, such as Limburger, has gastronomical possibilities. Mellowed presidents, however, such as Notre Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh [Feb. 15], are too soft and ripe for the palates of many Catholic parents...
...time is ripe: a Gallup poll reports that 75 per cent of the American people now support the McGovern-Hatfield proposal to set a deadline for total U. S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia, NBC reports that 45 per cent of those polled believe that U. S. ground troops are in Laos despite repeated government disclaimers...
...spectacular raids on Pochentong airport and targets in Phnom-Penh, Premier Lon Nol was described by his aides as "depressed." He could not have been particularly heartened either by exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk's remark that in a year or two Cambodia will "fall by itself like a ripe fruit...
...another forecast. At the time of the 1921 Leghorn meeting, it was the view of Lenin and the Comintern that Italy had all the "required conditions to guarantee the victory of the great proletarian revolution." Lenin, in fact, saw not only Italy but much of Western Europe as ripe ground for Communism, thanks to its broad base of industrial workers. Today there are Communist or Marxist regimes in all of Eastern Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and even in the Caribbean and South America-but not one where Lenin dreamed that his ideology would triumph first. Only in three Western...