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...Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...
...maladroit inspirations uncovered in Blindfold run from Negro and Italian dialect humor to some waggery about a boyish archvillain (Guy Stockwell) who stutters under stress. Endowed with a schizophrenia of its own, the whole movie suggests a three-way split between sophisticated sex farce, straightforward suspense, and a spy caper so whimsical that Rock and Claudia are finally sent, along with a truckload of store dummies clad in underwear, to right wrongs in a swampy Southern backwater identified as "the goose capital of America." There, with shotguns blazing and red-eyed alligators slithering toward Claudia's thighs, the whole...
Renaissance Man. Boyish enthusiasm sits poorly on a professor, but an urgency and eagerness that transcend enthusiasm can be gripping. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, English Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which...
...know lots of languages," the lanky, boyish-looking speaker assured an enraptured audience in New York's Town Hall last week. "I can talk to trees. And I do pretty well talking Holyman. You must be able to speak first to an amoeba, your father, a madman, Buddha, your lover...
Leary, a convert to Hinduism who was fired from the Harvard faculty in 1963 for giving hallucinogenic drugs to students, betrays boyish pride in the stir he has created ("They used to call people like me alchemists or medicine men"). However, he now agrees that LSD can be a danger. He has promised to forgo his own weekly LSD séances for a year, and recommends a similar moratorium for his disciples. Perfectly good hallucinations, he insists, can be had from yoga, movies or music. To prove it, he plans to run a do-it-yourself hallucination school...