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...huge powers. He was to assume authority not only over the crucial area of budget making, but was also to supervise the monitoring of some 1,000 federal programs. But there is often an immense difference between an official's paper powers and his real influence. Shultz is bland and quiet. Would he be able to penetrate the tight White House staff hierarchy and make his presence felt? The answer is in. Shultz has arrived-dramatically...
Artists come off differently under photographic inspection. Tenor Jon Vickers is a powerful stage actor, but he seems meek and calculated in Carmen and I Pagliacci. Raina Kabaivanska, a bland personality at the Met, emerges as a film actress of subtlety and range. Best of all is the Hamburg Opera's leading lady, American Arlene Saunders, who illuminates her roles with humor, and warm, emotional singing...
Richard Nixon's Sunday services in the White House East Room are as much a social as a religious occasion. They are rather folksy family gatherings of White House staffers and friends; the affairs are generally bland and ecumenical, presided over by a visiting dominie who seeks only the lowest common denomination. By the best White House count, the President himself has actually been to church outside the White House only four times since he took office, but that did not deter the 1970 conference of the Religious Heritage of America from naming him Churchman of the Year. Quaker...
...Brother. Addonizio, a seven-term member of Congress and mayor since 1962, has built a reputation of being liberal on racial matters. In this election he has decorated the city with bland "Peace and Progress" posters, but in his speeches he has turned more and more to race. Relaxed and genial as always in private conversation, he commutes from his trial to tell campaign audiences that Gibson is "part of a raw and violent conspiracy to turn this city over to LeRoi Jones and his extremist followers." Black Militant Jones, whose violence-filled plays and poems frighten many whites...
...genes ?he looks more like Yossarian than he does like Arkin. In part it is due to a virtuoso player entering his richest period. But in the main it is due to the quirky talent of Director Mike Nichols, whose previous successes have been wrung largely from the bland and facile. It is as if Neil Simon were to turn out Endgame or Peter Sellers to turn into Falstaff...