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...prominent Christian, Kang Nyang Ook, was a "carrot" from the start. Kang, pastor of the High Place Presbyterian Church and an old teacher of Kim II Sung's, organized the Christian People's Association, preached regularly on the evils of U.S. imperialism and the blessings of Soviet democracy. He gathered quite a following, and continued to have one even after some of the "white ones" threw a grenade into his house, killing his eldest son and two visiting pastors...
...members. Between 1947 and 1950 the price of rice in Pyongyang almost quadrupled. "Every time the price of rice went up another ten won," said a Pyongyang "radish" last week, "the government would announce a new housing project, a new hospital plan or a new wing for Kim II Sung University. This may have been very poor economics, but for most of our people who have never heard of economics anyway, it was excellent psychology...
Trucks & a Teacher. Last week, two weeks after Pyongyang's liberation from the dual rule of the Russians and Kim II Sung, the people of the city had nothing to do. In the city hall, a former schoolteacher went falteringly about the business of pretending he was mayor. Two rickety sound trucks wheezed about the streets alternately playing martial music and exhorting the citizenry to get their city running again. But there was no evidence that anyone in town had any idea of what to do next or how to do it. Almost everyone who had held a position...
...directorate-know that they had traveled a long way toward that goal. The first-nighters saw & heard a Don Carlo that glowed with the high sheen of months of work and polish. Stunningly if starkly scened in grey and glowingly costumed in El Greco reds, it was beautifully sung, cleanly staged and intelligently acted...
There was plenty of good choreography in Petit's individual, graceful, semi-acrobatic style. But La Croqueuse, with its first-class songs (including one sung by Petit himself), was pretty close to musicomedy too. That is a combination that appeals to Petit more & more. He thinks he would like to do a writing-composing-producing-choreographic job on a real U.S. musicomedy, says "Now I know a little...