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...Born Yesterday remains remarkably, if depressingly, up to date in its two main themes--corruption and sexism. Harry Brock (Lorenzo Mariani), a nouveau riche junkyard magnate, comes to Washington to "buy himself a senator," bringing in tow his empty-headed mistress, an ex-showgirl named Billie Dawn (Sarah McClusky). Deciding that Billie needs a little polishing up in order to "fit in" with the Washington social scene, Brock hires Paul Verrall (Jerry Colker), an earnest young writer for The New Republic, to be her tutor...
...policy of invasion and mass bombing in Southeast Asia, yet feel so distressed at the misunderstanding of him by young protestors that, like some Arabian nights caliph wandering at night through the streets of his own capital, and mingling with the common people, he would get up hours before dawn, leave the White House, and talk to some of the student demonstrators...
...Made the Movies. One of critic Richard Schickel's first-rate portraits of film directors and their work. Tonight: Howard Hawks ("The Dawn Patro," "Red River," "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep.") Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...midst of Watergate the men around the former President used to talk about some kind of thunderclap that would sweep away the whole mess by the next dawn. They tried speeches, statements, overseas trips and transcripts. None of it worked...
...longest story, "The Dawn in Erewhon," the hero, a Dutch philosopher, Adriaan van Hovendaal, who apparently actually exists, says, "Man has a history rather than a nature." And this story is Davenport's most comprehensive attempt to present that idea. But here the author fails, partially because he gets too pedantic, in both his language and his ideas, and partially because he shifts from the present action to an excerpted translation of van Hovendaal's works on Samuel Butler's utopic Erewhon and his own concepts of Utopia which are rightly described as "some of the strangest in modern thought...