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...Labor's ranks demoralized by Leader Hugh Gaitskell's death, Macmillan trounced a no-confidence vote 337-234. Then, in a supreme gesture of self-confidence, Harold Macmillan fielded an Opposition question about the possibility of "the door being reopened to entry into Europe" with the bland retort: "Does the honorable Member mean in this Parliament, or in the next Administration which I hope to form...
...Cornell's Clinton Rossiter and Amherst's Henry Steele Commager, Franklin analyzes the Civil War for" his mostly British students, telling them "how a great experiment could have come to be perched on the brink of disaster." He refuses to let Americans "be happy" with the bland idea that no one need be blamed for the Civil War. It was caused, he says, by the extremism of a South that "always seems to have looked over its shoulder-frequently seeing what was not there." His just published The Emancipation Proclamation (Doubleday; $3.50) hopefully suggests that "perhaps" Lincoln...
...dramatic laureate of the 1930s, when his Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Sing gave promise of a bright new American theater of protest. For 27 years, he has been a richly rewarded scriptwriter and adapter in Hollywood, and during the same period he has turned out several relatively bland plays-including Golden Boy-for Broadway...
...bland theater for avant-garde plays will rise where only recently audiences watched a nude and lissome actress nailed to a cross and carved to pieces by a group of gypsy magicians chanting something that sounded like a Protestant hymn sung backwards. Still another victim-popular with modern fans-was bound, gagged and whipped; then the tips of her breasts were clipped off with hedge shears and her eyes were scooped out with a soupspoon and a jackknife. "We are very proud of that sequence," said Charles Nonon, the Grand Guignol's last director. "We consider it original...
...pressure, of which he has little, but simply his canny ability to fetch up more cash than anyone else. Troy Post's fortune is calculated to be at least $70 million, and he has amassed it almost wholly in the past 16 years by investing in the seemingly bland field of life insurance, where he has shown an eye for companies ready, in his words, "to take...