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Quiet Confidence. The choice between the generals was not an easy one. Each had a clique of supporters actively rooting for him. Noting that Chapman was senior in time-in-rank to Walt and Krulak, Johnson remarked: "One man said you could flip a coin and any one of three or four would be ideally equipped...
...Marxist historians in America, was not doing any research for the National Liberation Front. His views on the war in Vietnam were shaped by his own theoretical outlook on revolution in underdeveloped societies, as well as his obvious revulsion at United States policy. On the other side of the coin, professors who spend a day each week in Washington, or part of their time on government research, may find their perspective slightly altered--if not warped--by their pre-occupation with "practical" matters. This, at least, is the argument of those who decry "University complicity." It is also an allegation...
...Odets's presence, but quickly came to accept him, probably as a spiritual ancestor to such modern plays as Dear Me, the Sky is Falling and I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Lines like "I got a yen for her, and I don't mean a Chinese coin" were laughed at agreeably, and the play's genuinely tense moments drew genuinely tense reactions. All in all, it was hard to believe Awake and Sing could have meant something more, or even something different, to its '30's audiences than to its '60's audiences. It still works...
...play begins with the flip of a coin-an act that finds its echo later when the Player King says, "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it." Just as the play is a kind of jangled echo chamber of Hamlet, so each word, event, mood and character develops an echo. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are echoes of each other, since they perpetually confuse each other's names. They have been summoned to Elsinore by Claudius, or by fate, and they seem to be dawdling apprehensively...
Everyone is happy about the increased number of foreign tourists, particularly the U.S. Government. The other side of the coin is not viewed with such pleasure in Washington. More and more U.S. vacationers have been fleeing the country and taking their dollars to foreign lands. As a result the U.S. travel deficit, which increased by $31 million in 1966 to $1.64 billion, is expected this year to hit $1.8 billion or more...