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...affably is the club's founder, a witty, white-haired retired lawyer named Percy Chen, 70. Born in Trinidad into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, Chen is an atypical apologist for the People's Republic. He studied at University College in London and did his legal apprenticeship at the Middle Temple, one of London's prestigious Inns of Court. Even today, his accent is impeccably British, and he speaks very little Chinese...
...White House Conference on Aging in Washington, he sounded like the man who had pledged to "bring us together" on the morrow of his 1968 election victory. The youngsters applauded his denunciation of "the insidious bigotry called age-ism," which leaves the young to "plod along in apprenticeship or chafe in alienation" and abandons the old to "draw Social Security, preferably well out of sight." The oldsters cheered his call for "a new national attitude toward aging," which "can end the 'throwaway psychology' " (see following story...
...ever got made. Except for the above scene, the script by Lawrence B. Marcus is the sort of thing that might have shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer of Going Home, Herbert B. Leonard, served a lengthy apprenticeship in television. Too lengthy, perhaps. Both he and Marcus never develop their characters, as if they thought nuance could be provided with a twist of the fine-tuning knob...
...said he was not involved in the Charles McNeil controversy last year, in which SDS accused B&G of using apprenticeship programs to keep black workers' wages down. Lee said that the apprenticeship programs are continuing this year...
None of the O. Henryesque twists would stir an audience much if Sada Thompson was not a masterly actress. Some 42 years ago, she was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and her apprenticeship has included years of regional repertory work, doing lead parts in The Three Sisters, Macbeth, The Rose Tattoo and plays of like caliber. Two seasons ago she won an award as best off-Broadway actress of the year, playing the bitter, slatternly mother in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...