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...anti-war rallies and publishers' luncheons, waiting for a cause to happen to it. None did, and the critics made their own. MacDonald, Brustein, Clureman and Robert Lowell declared the play a theatrical experience of sheer delight, even if its political argument was pernicious nonsense; Kerr and Lionel Abel took no delight at all in the politics, and found no other grounds for applause. MacBird's referents in real life are obvious and tangible: a jowly, gutter-mouthed Lyndon Johnson supported by assorted cronies and a megalomaniacal wife; a string of identical Kennedys whose misfortunes (the assassination, Bobby's exile...
...four seasons of Walden Pond than for the five boroughs of New York City. He was to write: Now the midwinter grind is on me, New York drills through my nerves,/ as I walk/ the chewed-up streets. And, in a cataclysmic line: When Cain beat out his brother Abel's brains/ the Maker laid great cities in his soul...
...VIEW FROM EUROPE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). NBC's London Bureau Chief Elie Abel reports on the sharp change in European attitudes toward the U.S. and Americans. He covers Germany, Denmark, France and Switzerland, as he talks with educators and politicians about Viet Nam, NATO, U.S. businesses abroad...
...this trinity of matters. The ADA in the past has had its political base in a rough coalition between unattached liberals and liberal trade unionists. So I trust it will continue to be. We shall continue to find strength in our alliance with men like Walter Reuther, "Abe" Abel, Louis Stohlberg and others who believe in their old-fashioned way that liberalism is the cause of the worker. But we must also be aware that large sections of the labor movement are no pillar of liberal strength. On the contrary the leadership is aged, contented and deeply somnambulant...
Although Cornell's offense is slower, it is better balanced than Princeton. The top Ivy gains of Pete Larson, coupled with the passing combination of Bill Abel and John Gervase, should be too much for the stout Tiger defense. Here's Cornell...