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Dwight MacDonald and Norman Mailer are traced through checkered careers. The one seems to be taken as representative of the '50's in his withdrawal from politics, the other typical of the Kennedy years in his admiration for the charismatic leader and his well-bred wife who together were to wed culture and politics, or their contemporary analogues, Broadway and Route 128, in an apotheosis of disciplined Power. Mailer's existentialism is in fact not too far from the old notion of "expressive politics" which the New Republic implicitly championed for years: commitment for the sake of commitment, action...
...District Judge Herbert Christenberry, 67, was born and bred in New Orleans, is an old Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
...worry! Etc. isn't grim. The play's main excuse for entertainment (it is supposed to be funny) is the debunking of Tom and Teena by Razz and Pinky (orphan Tom's fairy guardian) and then the tender undercutting of Pinky and Mrs. Bigelow (Teena's Greenwich-bred mother...
...Island, Ga., where Michael Anderson vacations, is small (five miles by two miles), immaculately clean and sedate, and mostly favored by reasonably well-to-do and well-bred Southern families and honeymooners who like Southern ways, though a fair number of Midwesterners and Yankees show up each year also. Sea Island is geared to outdoor living?golf and swimming particularly, and an old-fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building...
...their wives) may stumble over the local language, bruise local sensibilities, and hanker to return to the center of power back at the home office. For this reason-and for a lot of others-U.S. companies are increasingly turning over control of their foreign outposts to European-bred local managers. Says Arthur K. Watson, chairman of IBM's international subsidiary: "It is far easier to develop company spirit in a European than it is for an American to develop an understanding of a foreign country's history, culture and customs - to say nothing of its language...