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...mark of a first-rate intelligence, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, is the capacity to entertain two contradictory propositions in one's mind simultaneously without going crazy. The Viet Nam era had its psychotic moments. It may be a sign of American mental health, and intelligence, that the nation is ready to try to repay its complicated debt to the men and women who left their youth in Viet Nam, doing what their country asked them to do. Those who went to Viet Nam (whether they were volunteers, or draftees dragged there kicking and screaming) suffered through a violent complexity...
Since its May opening, Cats has been London's hottest ticket. The show's composer and director plan to visit New York City soon to entertain bids for a Broadway version of Cats from some of the same angels who thought the project too risky to invest in when it needed funds a few months ago. So the Prince of Wales and his bride-to-be are not the only British couple who have reason to smile these days. Catch Lloyd Webber or Nunn off-guard, and you are likely to see a mile-wide Cheshire-cat grin...
...Cambridge is celebrating its 250th birthday. Schoolchildren gather early in Harvard's Sanders Theater, where two Harvard professors--Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--entertain their young audience. In the afternoon, the adults crowd into Sanders: Harvard's President Charles Eliot begins the program by calling Cambridge "a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking peoples for generations to come." Cambridge mayor James W. Hall returns the compliment: "It is especially fitting we meet here today, having for our host an institution which, since...
Helms lives modestly, almost reclusively. He and his wife Dot rarely entertain or go out. Helms instead pours his energy into his work. He wakes up around 6 a.m. and spends several hours reading reports and answering mail, sending off about 75 letters a day. He is attentive to friend as well as foe and is known for helping North Carolina constituents who have opposed him bitterly...
...York City. Now just about everybody seems to be enchanted by Bobby and his friends-Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Cy Coleman and Stephen Sondheim. By the end of April he will have appeared in Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. At the end of this week he will entertain the Reagans and their special guest, Prince Charles, at the White House-his third gig at the Executive Mansion since...