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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). North to Alaska, adventure during the Gold Rush, with John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Ernie Kovacs and Fabian...
Even then, rock 'n' roll was still dismissable among the sophisticates as a curiously persistent fad. But then came the British. U.S. parents had weathered Pat Boone's white-bucks period, the histrionics of Johnnie Ray, and the off-key mewings of Fabian, but this was something else again?four outrageous Beatles in high-heeled boots, undersized suits and enough hair between them to stuff a sofa. When they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, 68 million people, one of the largest TV audiences in history, tuned in to see what all the ruckus was about...
...Writers John Steinbeck and Barbara Ward, among many others), two possible inspirations are particularly intriguing. One is a 1927 book by Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey, in which he discussed the "search for the Great Community" in terms of liberating individual potentialities; the other is a 1921 book by British Fabian Socialist Graham Wallas entitled The Great Society, which advocated beauty and serenity in a harsh, industrialized world through the psychological "Organization of Happiness." Whether or not Lyndon is indebted even indirectly to these sources, he is certainly a pragmatist, dedicated to organizing happiness in the U.S. and, if possible...
Murphy easily won the G.O.P. Senate nomination, and he has been campaigning tirelessly ever since. His pitch is Basic Barry. Liberals are "Fabian Socialists." Democrats are a conspiratorial sort, and the words Yalta and Potsdam fall easily from Murphy's lips as places and names of derision. On issues such as the nuclear test ban, federal aid to education and medicare, Murphy hews close to the Goldwater line, but he disagrees with Barry on the Civil Rights Act and foreign...
...Past and passé do-goodies such as Eleanor, Chester and Soapy pale before the chubby-cheeked dynamo that is Horatio. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen must be taught in no uncertain terms that this Fabian gab-bag, one uncertain heartbeat from the White House, is the farthest out since F.D.R. tabbed Henry Wallace...