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...performance would have looked good in any production, and seemed splendid in this one: Clayton Corzatte's Puck. Corzatte was nimble of foot and voice, moving always with grace and speaking with great clarity and in bell-like tones that become extraordinary during incantations. Perhaps the only fault in his performance was an occasional tendency to speak too rapidly, and even this can be excused as an attempt to get the wretched evening over with...
...Committee. Again Jack Kennedy faced a dismaying dilemma: the Senate version, appropriating nearly twice the money ($1.8 billion) offered by the House, authorized special federal funds to raise teachers' salaries-a mouth-watering campaign plum. The House bill contained nothing for the teachers, but it did have Adam Clayton Powell's familiar monkey wrench: an amendment restricting the construction money to integrated schools. With the promise of a vote, if necessary, from Arkansas' James Trimble, Kennedy's adherents on the Rules Committee had the strength to get the House bill out, if Kennedy gave the word...
...been in a state of civil war, with the embattled regulars (Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, State Chairman Mike Prendergast) under heavy attack from such guerrillas as the reform liberals (headed by ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Thomas K. Finletter), disgruntled Negro groups (oriented toward Representative Adam Clayton Powell), and the traditionally anti-Tammany Liberal Party...
Most of the supporting roles are in admirable hands. John Ragin offers a cleanly acted and crisply spoken Octavius; Morris Carnovsky rounds out resourcefully the sketchily-drawn Lepidus, a V.I.P. who's not V.I.; and Clayton Corzatte is touching as Antony's attendant Eros. Earle Hyman makes deep music of Alexas' lines; and throughout long silences he shows himself the master of what the late Ethel Barrymore called 'perhaps the highest art of an actor--the art of beautiful listening" (he is less effective doubling as the asp-smuggling Clown...
...guns (although they hesitated to say so publicly out of respect for what Johnson and Rayburn might do to such labor favorites as the minimum-wage law when Congress reconvenes). But Johnson could point to some surprising signs of Northern Negro support. New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell, political chieftain of Harlem, is a Johnson defender. Philadelphia's No. 1 Negro newspaper, the Tribune, openly endorsed Johnson in an editorial last March: "Please don't think we are crazy, but this newspaper would like to see Lyndon B. Johnson nominated for President...