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Apart from the overtones of demi-semi-Hemingway in this creed, the play casts doubt on the joy of life that it rather self-consciously preaches ("use all five senses every day"). To treat life as a branch of esthetics is to observe one's responses to it, rather than engage spontaneously in it, to play-act rather than act, or play. When Wertenbaker and his wife Lael (Olivia de Havilland) make love, he asks for a morning-after review. "Miraculous, as always," she replies, making two people who believe...
...Author Morton comes off best with the English branch, it is perhaps because they come off best themselves. A Rothschild was the first Jew in the Commons, a Rothschild was the first Jew in the Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money...
...Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that Vice President Johnson continue in his post as presiding officer of meetings of the Senate Democratic conference. A group of Democrats, including Tennessee's Albert Gore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, protested that it meant an invasion by the executive branch...
...enough to call the meetings to order and turn the gavel over to Mansfield. Says a Democratic Senator of Lyndon's legislative role: "As Mansfield's grip tightens, Lyndon is more and more out of it." But if L.BJ.'s Senate influence has lessened, his executive branch activities have steadily increased. Last week, with N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins at his side, Johnson summoned news men to his office, announced that the Administration would step up its efforts to end racial discrimination by unions and Southern industries. Johnson made that announcement as chairman of the President...
...President's making an important issue of a problem on which he is clearly unable to act immediately, it is that suggestions of scandal allow too many people to play the heroic investigator. Nothing delights congressmen seeking reelection more than the prospect of uncovering corruption in the executive branch. The stockpile question is a tricky one, and efforts to fix the blame for it on specific administrators are unlikely to answer it effectively...