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Friday, June 14, 1963
First Reviews Of Cleopatra Mostly Good
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Reviews by New York newspapers of the film spectacular "Cleopatra" which premiered Wednesday night at the Rivoli Theater on Broadway included;
New York Herald Tribune—" . at best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium. There are indeed some beautiful and impressive photographic effects, with transitions made by having faded frescoes slowly brighten into a live scene or a scene freeze and dim into a fresco. But the sets themselves never create an illusion of permanence within their time. All is monumental — but the people are not. The mountain of nostorility has produced a mouse."
DAILY NEWS“Well worth waiting for. Well worth the price of admission and the four hours and three minutes spent seeing it. If you go to
... titter, you won't get the chance.
If you go to leer, you will stay to cheer a magnificent spectacle that gratifies our desire for perfection, enriches our love of beauty and art, fulfills our admiration of brilliant acting and satisfies our demand for historical accuracy, give or take a few omissions."
New York Mirror "'Cleopatra is a spectacular, sensuous spectacle. It is enormous, and enormity is its forte. The drama unfolds ruggedly and is excellent as an introduction to ancient history, since the script is based on research. But it does not involve the viewer's emotions other than through its spectacular sweep. You may say, 'Wow,' but you'll never cry, 'Woe.'"
Japanese Have Yen To Learn English
TOKYO—(UPI)—With the Tokyo Olympics coming up in October, 1964, the Japanese people are showing an ever-increasing interest in the English language.
The current enthusiasm for English may be compared with that during the early years of the Allied occupation in Japan.
In Tokyo, three television stations air English lessons for half an hour every morning and night from Monday through Friday. One radio station broadcasts 15-minute English lessons twice a day. Many books on English conversation have been published one after another in the past two years.
ONE, ENTITLED "How To Become Strong In English" hit a sale of more than a million copies in two years. Since then "Grown-Up's English," "English Conversation In One Week," "New Guide To English Conversation," "You Can Speak English Tomorrow," "English For The Olympic Games," have appeared.
Tokyo's big three newspapers, the Mainichi, Asahi and Yomiuri, publish daily columns explaining English conversation and phrases.
The sports newspaper Hoochi Shimbun runs a column entitled "Sports English For The Olympic Games."
Executives and housewives, as well as school students, attend English conversation classes.
HOTELS, DEPARTMENT stores and the railways hold classes to help employees speak better. English.
The National Railways Corporation distributed 9,000 pamphlets to conductors and trainen. The pamphlets are entitled "Railwaymen's English."
A spokesman for the Selbu department department, increasing our English-speaking sales staff in anticipation of foreign shoppers a year from now."
A taxi company has given its drivers a 50-page English conversation book. One of the leading newspapers has opened a twice-weekly English conversation course for reporters covering the Olympics.
EVEN GEISHA GIRLS are studving English.
Police also are learning English. The Metropolitan Police Board has opened a special course with the cooperation of an English language school.
Counter-balancing all the enthusiasm is the fact that it is nearly as difficult for the Japanese to learn foreign languages as it is for foreigners to learn Japanese.
One basic difficulty is that Japanese characters usually are used in the teaching of foreign languages, so that "Olympics," impeccably pronounced by the book, comes out "Orympics."
However, the obvious fact that English will be the Lingua Franca of the Olympics has created a terrific desire here to learn it.
Red China's Goal: Hegemony in Asia
(Continued from page 3) gation is required to discover the motives behind the Chinese Communist aggression in Southeast Asia and the relative decline of Russian influence there.
THE QUESTIONS are many and the answers have been long debated. Certainly no one can be certain as to the exact reasons why history has taken this course, but the discussions always seem to return to one pivotal point:
Red China, under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung, may be attempting a rebirth of the former Chinese empire as an extremely long-range project.
Emerging from a dramatic three-year crisis which forced it to mobilize all its forces and look toward an essential new start in agriculture, Red China has been in no position to push even a modest industrial recovery without substantial foreign aid.
Moscow has progressively withdrawn this aid from China, and is now refusing it point blank. Khrushchev has good reason to be cautious, it is becoming increasingly clear.
TO AVENGE herself on Moscow, Peking may be contriving to hew out an empire of satellites for herself in Southeast Asia, either by subversion or by force.
furthermore, the "golden age" of Chinese Communism (that period when Moscow gave unstinting material aid to Peking) corresponded to a period of high international tension. Khrushchev's policy of "peaceful coexistence," on the other hand, has been marked by an abandonment of China to her own difficulties. There is, then, a certain logic in the viewpoint that a return
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to a protracted climate of international tension might in the long run operate to China's advantage.
These are the considerations on the basis of which many Asians specializing in Chinese affairs explain, at least in part, the sudden belligerence of Peking in launching the Himalayan conflict at the end of October. They believe that during the months to come other moves may be expected from China aimed at inflaming the situation in Southeast Asia.
THE UNITED STATES, meanwhile has been watching carefully and wondering what steps to attempt in order to establish a more solid defense in the threatened areas.
President Kennedy is asking Congress to devote $2.6 billion—more than half of his $4.5 billion foreign aid request—to economic and military assistance to Asian nations on the rim of China and the Soviet Union.
At nearly the same time, however, a bi-partisan Senate group headed by the majority leader, Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont), has urged a
clampdown on U.S. aid to Southeast Asia and a thorough reassessment of the security needs there.
They said $5 billion in economic and military aid has been poured into that part of the world since 1950, and they question whether much has been accomplished by this spending. They were even more dubious about the wisdom of an indefinite prolonging of the present policies.
MANSFIELD STATED that, "All of the current difficulties existed in 1955 along with hope and energy to meet them. But it is seven years later and two billion dollars of U.S. aid later. Yet, substantially the same difficulties remain if indeed they have not been compounded."
And, if we cannot find enough challenge in the words of an American, let us turn our ears to Soviet Premier Khrushchev, who recently was quoted as reminding the West of his opinion that, "The international Communist movement has become the most influential political force of our epoch . . . the capitalist world has been notably reduced."
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(Continued from page 8) move ahead and to provide the kind of equality of treatment which we would want ourselves; to give a chance for every child to be educated to the limit of his talents.
"ROMANOFF & JULIET"
"As I have said before, not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or an equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation to make something of themselves.
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"This is what we are talking about and this is a matter which concerns this country and what it stands for, and in meeting I ask the support of all of our citizens.
"We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, wil uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair; that the constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
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Workshop Ends Tomorrow
"Thank you very much."
The Seventeenth Annual Elementary Education Workshop, with its headquarters in Bailey hall will end tomorrow, June 15. The workshop which began June 4, is designed for elementary school teachers and supervisors. The intensive 11-day course offered 2 hours undergraduate residence credit or graduate credit.
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