Word: duncan
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...Moral Certainty. The most immediate result of Hatfield's antiwar stand was, in fact, to bring Democratic Representative Robert Duncan charging into the senatorial race. A firm supporter of the President's conduct of the war, Duncan, 45, felt that Hatfield's position could not go uncontested, and he left a safe constituency to take on the Governor. "I am morally certain," he says, "that if we withdraw, we will be involved in a third world war with Communist China. I'm convinced that if we stand firm, we'll bring to Southeast Asia...
Though previously little known outside his southern Oregon district, Duncan, a former seaman who still wads his cheeks with snuff and misses no chance to brag about his Scottish ancestry, received nationwide publicity in his primary battle against antiwar Candidate Howard Morgan (TIME, June 3), whom he trounced by an almost 2-to-l margin. Since then, shuttling weekly between House and home, Duncan has become, in his words, "practically a permament resident of United Air Lines...
Curious Ambivalence. For his part, Hatfield is doing his best to forget Viet Nam for the rest of the campaign-if Duncan will only let him. The Governor's statements on the war have taken on a curiously ambivalent tone. He chides both "those who would give the President a blank check and those who make a public spectacle of themselves by protesting more for the sake of protest." He pledges "unqualified and complete support" for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and has suggested economic sanctions against those countries shipping into Haiphong harbor. Like everyone else...
...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
Died. Edward Gordon Craig, 94, British theater producer and designer, the son of Actress Ellen Terry, who acted with Henry Irving, designed sets for Stanislavsky, was a friend of Max Reinhardt, a foe of George Bernard Shaw, the lover of Isadora Duncan, and a controversial genius widely credited with many of the major stage innovations since the turn of the century; of a stroke; in Vence, France...