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Portlist has lost none of the intellectual zest that brought him a magna in history and literature at Harvard in 1954. He wrote his thesis on Henry David Thoreau's part in Brook Farm, the experimental community begun by George Ripley in 1841. Portlist is still an amateur student of Transcendentalism, but it was his interest in politics that moved him to organize the Massachusetts Citizens for the Great Society...
...other affiliations; only one mentioned any political candidate besides the big boy. Only two cars sported anything daring as "Stop Barry, The Life You Save May Be Your Own." The LBJ bumper tag army is specially socially in their electioneering an in their cars, pure and abstract, and will brook no diversionary nonsense...
...Brook Roadless Areas...
...success, the mercenaries remained in bad odor with the rest of black Africa. But Premier Moise Tshombe, in Nairobi for talks with the Congo Reconciliation Committee headed by Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, made it clear that though he wants black African help in quelling the rebellion, he would brook no "interference in the internal affairs" of his country. That seemed to mean the mercenaries would stay-for the time being at least...
...Physicists, an excellent play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit), is set in a lunatic asylum. Peter Brook directs the "black comedy," which stars Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Martyn Green, Robert Shaw and George Voscovec. The Diamond Orchid spans the last 37 months in the life of an Eva Perón. Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, her first play since Raisin in the Sun, is about a Greenwich Village newspaper publisher, played by Mort Sahl in his first straight Broadway role...