Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...
Emblems of Service. In drafting his statement on Viet Nam, Humphrey chose his words with excruciating care. He went through seven drafts of the speech, taped it six times before he was satisfied. James Rowe, a Humphrey campaign aide and a factotum for Democratic administrations since the New Deal, said the wording of the crucial paragraphs "must have been changed 300 to 400 times." When he was ready, Humphrey made certain that the vice-presidential seal and flag-emblems of his service to Lyndon Johnson-were nowhere in sight. "I wanted to speak as Hubert H. Humphrey, candidate for President...
...running mate, often in pretty strange waters. He considered "Colonel" Harland Sanders, the fried-chicken king ("It's finger-lickin' good"). He looked over Paul Harvey, a right-wing newscaster, former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and Orval Faubus, the ex-Governor of Arkansas. He nearly chose A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, the former Governor and Senator from Kentucky, but Chandler proved too moderate on the race issue. Last week, after jokingly warning reporters that "I'm full of surprises," he announced his decision: retired Air Force General Curtis LeMay...
...Washington Carver High School in Newport News, Va., Keyes scored 21 touchdowns in football, led the basketball team with an average 27.5 points per game, and set a state track record with a 24-ft. 4½-in. long jump. More than 80 colleges were after him until he chose Purdue. There, in his first varsity year, he was a defensive back-until he grabbed a Notre Dame fumble and raced 95 yds. for a touchdown. From then on, he played both ways, and last year he led the nation with 19 touchdowns...
...much can be said for some of the other coverage now emerging. Editors chose some unlikely writers to cast a new light on events, and it is quite often a lurid one. In Esquire, that chronicler of human decay and perversion, Jean Genet, reports that he could smell America decomposing; he was also fascinated by the size of the thighs of Chicago cops. In the same magazine, William Burroughs concocts a fantasy in which a purple-bottomed baboon runs for President. Esquire's John Sack, on the other hand, convincingly finds the typical cop much more playful, much less...