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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murky Waters. Of the only two new plays with any serious intellectual content to have opened in the West End this season, one-Peter Ustinov's disappointing Halfway Up the Tree-closed in New York after only 72 performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being...
After Feintuch was interviewed for a Crimson feature this weekend, council president Paul Munyon decided to fire him. Not yet content, Munyon changed the locks at the Bulletin's headquarters lest the erstwhile editor attempt to sneak back...
...moment these trends are of almost no concern to those living in exile here. Most are content to make do with what they have. And what they have is largely provided by a host of sympathetic groups in the city pledged to helping them find their way. Contact will find a bed, a place to eat, and potential jobs. The Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters will clear up border disputes and lead Americans through immigration forms...
Administration supporters deny Johnson or any of his aides had anything to do with the card. McCarthy is content with noting that at the very least, the Administration has created the political "atmosphere" which is forcing supporters to such extreme expressions of loyalty...
Four "Reflections" have appeared to date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries...