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...Jack Paar Show (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of Jack's new weekly variety series. Tumbling out of the easygoing midnight hours into hot, concentrated prime time, many a performer has been burned to a crisp. Will Paar char? Tune in and watch the fun-or the funeral. Color...
Poetry Without Pleasure. But Empson's latest work, Milton's God, a vast retreat from the crisp analysis of his earlier writing, is less literary criticism than a diatribe against Christianity. Empson fears that literary criticism has fallen into the hands of T. S. Eliot and the "neo-Christian movement." which judges all literature from a Christian viewpoint. Empson finds Satan a more likable character than God in Paradise Lost. Milton's God is "astonishingly like Uncle Joe Stalin" down to "flashes of joviality" and "bad temper," writes Empson. He tortures angels and mankind...
Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
...Oklahoma's Democrat Robert Kerr to table the medicare amendment worked out by the Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives at the end of the alphabet...
Dramatizing the best of the past-the American past-was the achievement of crisp, eloquent Howard Mumford Jones, 70, Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the humanities. A former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jones spoke out sharply against McCarthyism in the 1950s. It was a patriot's protest; few scholars are so enamored of U.S. ideals. Author Jones (The Pursuit of Happiness), who will lecture at M.I.T. this fall, is convinced that "Americanists" have one of the toughest fields around-a thicket of North American lore, its European roots...