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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dividing Equity. Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy have, in fact, just about divided Actors' Equity between them (see box). There have been some notable crossovers. Gene has lured Rob ert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) from touch-football games at Hickory Hill, while Bobby has corralled Carol Channing, who warbled her way into the White House with Hello, Lyndon! in 1964. Artists, writers and other intellectuals are also pretty evenly divided between the two. Bobby has a corner on famed athletes. With just the names he has now, he would probably sweep both the World Series and the football...
...statement a valid X ray of the body politic in 1968? Or merely a vote-getting ploy? Are these disparate elements capable of ballot-box cohesion? It would seem unlikely. Nixon himself concedes only "differences of emphasis, not of fundamentals; differences in the speed of change, not so much in the direction of change." Yet the pace of progress is itself a key issue. Black militants-and black moderates, for that matter-have been increasingly dissatisfied with gradualism. It was the demand for "Freedom now.'" that motivated black militance in the first place, while many of the whites Nixon...
...Academic Revolution is filled with footnotes; still, it is not a pedantic academic treatise and fairly sparkles with aphoristic insight (see box). Riesman and Jencks visited only about 150 of the nation's 2,200 colleges, relied more heavily on their own judgments and interviews than on archive materials or administrative documents. Despite this informal method-or perhaps because of it-the book is likely to stand for years as the most reliable analysis of higher education...
...Mary McCarthy herself. She likes her little comforts. "To my stupefaction," she writes, "there was hot water, plenty of it. . . At the Continental in Saigon, there was only cold water." Amid "other luxuries I found at the Thong Nhat Hotel were sheets of toilet paper laid out on a box in a fan-pattern." Since she was served "little cups of tea" almost everywhere she went, she wondered why she got tea at the War Crimes Museum but beer at the War Crimes Commission. "Perhaps I should have asked, but the Vietnamese are sensitive...
...other times, he opens a kind of panderer's box, tempting men and women to act out the vices of flesh and mind that have always been part of humanity's lot. In graphic dumb show or coarse double-entendre, incest, rape, sodomy, masturbation, sadism and masochism are all depicted or evoked on stage...