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The Dandy and the Tradesman. Elegiac, autumnal and melancholy though it is, Home is shot through with rueful humor. Playwright Storey subtly draws an ironic parallel between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical...
GOVERNORS and mayors barring the schoolhouse door, hostile police, screaming and sometimes violent white mobs, ingenious legal barriers-these have been the autumnal rites in the South since the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954. No more. This fall some of the South's most recalcitrant school...
The Band makes music for the autumn. It is surely not complete coincidence that their latest album, Stage Fright, is being released as September approaches. For no matter if they sing about "dancin' through the clover" or some "time to kill" in June and July, the sure flavor of...
Ironclad Chastity. As the autumnal Henry, Richard Burton is every other inch a king. In appearance he is as scruffy as a knave; his justly celebrated voice is restricted to self-analytical lists: "I'm bitter, I'm envious, I'm dangerous, I'm malicious." Quite...
PRESIDENT NIXON'S demand last week for congressional action on his draft-revision bill was adapted from a scenario inspired by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. More than anyone else in the Administration, Laird worries about the possible consequences of the autumnal unrest planned by student anti-Pentagon groups...