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...This is an apt criticism of his play The Revenger's Tragedy, which has been revived by the Yale Repertory Theatre. It qualifies as a zestful enterprise in theatrical archaeology but a somewhat more obscure service to drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood for the Bony Lady | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

DENVER-It rankles Senator George McGovern that the widely accepted knock on him as a political leader is that he does not charge up the voters to shrieks of enthusiasm. "No charisma," political buffs are apt to say, when discussing the man who evoked the biggest popular response of the 1968 Democratic convention, for his rousing performance in the candidates' debate before the California delegation...

Author: By Tom Wicker, | Title: THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. ISN'T THIS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR? McGOVERN FOR PRESIDENT Charisma Is as Charism | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...Your description of Reich's book was quite apt. Consciousness III appears to be quite unconscionable. He fails to explain adequately the downfall of civilizations such as Greece that may have become top-heavy with Consciousness III subcultures. While some childlike qualities are desirable, neither children nor a society characterized as childlike are capable of self-sufficiency or of being ever-renewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1970 | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Scammon and Wattenberg's dismissal of the Southern Strategy was certainly confirmed. Any movement by the Republican Party, they warn, "toward a Southern Strategy, capitalizing on antiblack feelings, toward capturing the Wallace vote to build an emerging Republican majority," would backfire-an apt description of the Republican midterm foray into the South. Of the sixteen races for Governorship and the Senate in the Southern and Border States, the Republicans...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The Heartland The Real Majority | 11/20/1970 | See Source »

...Bring your negotiating partners gifts -small ones. Anything from the West is apt to interest them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dos and Don'ts of Dealing with the Reds | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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