Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underscore the theme he has adopted for his inaugural and touched on in his victory speech-"Bring us together"-Nixon also played host to a diverse cast of characters. In a single day, his guests at the Pierre included A.T.& T. Ex-Chairman Frederick Kappel, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Richard Helms, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. After his meeting, Young quipped, in a reference to Nixon's neglect of the Negro during his campaign: "I wanted to make sure the 'forgotten Americans' he's been talking about...
...loss to the occupiers, yielding no more of the liberties recently won under Alexander Dubček's reformist regime than absolutely necessary to satisfy Russian demands. Last week the first full-dress debate on Czechoslovakia's prospects took place at a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Much of the agenda came straight from Moscow, but that did not stop every pressure group in the country from a final burst of effort aimed at affecting the committee's decisions...
...report corroborates the complaints of the protesting mothers. Its central point is that the state's welfare money is not reaching the people for whom it was intended. The mothers who are on trial today for sitting-in in a desperate attempt to obtain money for winter clothing for their children represent the victims of the welfare system. The Cohen report has now filled in the other side of the picture: now we know where the money has been going...
With Herman's inability to cope with the property in his music, the duty falls to the authors of the book, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Perhaps failing to see that the songs establish the central character as a nebulous Mame-Dolly figure, they don't make an effort to help their collaborator along. As a result, they do so little that the Madwoman is not fleshed out until the second act. Nor do Lawrence and Lee establish any other character until too late. This is particularly unfortunate in the case of the villains, who are such vague...
Josh Rubins, the director, appears to have distributed his time and energy so evenly among the show's various departments, that a central hand is nowhere particularly evident. The blocking and pacing lack discipline, but the cast had obvious technical difficulties, like falling flats, to contend with last night, so maybe matters will improve ere long. Whether or no, idle visions and foolish comparisons aside, they've got a good thing going...