Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Boorstin's direction of this triple bill is, in nearly every...
...Through The Morning is about fifty percent hard core country music, expertly performed. Doug Dillard comes from a family of bluegrass musicians and plays banjo, fiddle and guitar more than competently. David Jackson, bass, piano, and cello, scales down the harshness of the other instruments: and Jon Corneal (drums) gives the music the rhythmic patterns of rock. Sneaky Pete, listed as a "Special Picker," plays a very fine steel guitar, sometimes mimicking Clark's mouthharp or the piano, sometimes taking the role of lead guitar...
Saturday's march begins at 10 a.m. It will proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the edge of the blocked-off area around the White House. It will end at the Washington Monument, where marchers will hear speeches by Ozzie Davis, David Dellinger, Sens. George McGovern (D. S. D.) and Charles Goodell (R. N. Y.), Mrs. Coretta King, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...cast of characters-politicians, journalists, civilians, combatants-at once supply historical continuity and act as a kind of tragic chorus. Journalists like Jean Lacouture and David Halberstam recount the development and deepening of the war. Meanwhile the screen shows scenes of John Foster Dulles promulgating his doctrine of "collective security" and French troops vanquished at Dienbienphu. There are glimpses of wartime savagery on both sides, and there is even some comic relief, as when Madame Nhu announces "About that question of the rubber stamp parliament: I have repeatedly said, 'But what's wrong to rubber-stamp the laws...
...while the niece may be dark in theme, David Boorstin's direction sustains a lightness of execution. If anything, the pace sometimes gets a bit too frenetic. The musical backing of The Rhythm Method adds a driving hard sell that puts over much of the rest of the play quite successfully...