Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all Wallaceites believe that there are simple solutions for complicated problems. In his platform, released this week?just 22 days before the election?he says that if peace negotiations fail, he would solve the war by turning it over to the generals. Law and order would be maintained by eradicating an "unexplainable compassion for the criminal evidenced by our executive and judicial officers and officials." He would seek an amendment to the Constitution that would require the Senate to reconfirm "at reasonable intervals" members of the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts...
...Beyond politics, a census of activists can only be suggested. Everyone knows someone who volunteers for messy civic chores, stubbornly advocates heretical ideas, won't conform to Kafkaesque organizations or autocratic bosses. Doers turn up as doctors who attack outdated treatments, teachers who think schools teach children to fail, corporate vice presidents who accuse their companies of being sclerotic, priests who say popes are fallible, colonels who accuse generals of fighting the last war. If a strictly random sampling of present American activists is drawn from many walks of life, the mixed result looks like this...
...York lawyer argues that even Nelson Rockefeller could wind up in the White House. This theory has a bizarre plausibility. Assume that Wallace carries only four Deep South states with a combined total of less than 43 electoral votes. As one result, both Nixon and Humphrey fail to gain the needed 270 majority in the Electoral College. As another, New York's 43 electors-chosen under Nixon's G.O.P. banner but not constitutionally bound to vote for him-revive old loyalties, cast their ballots for Rockefeller. Heeding the Constitution, the Electoral College sends the names of Nixon, Humphrey...
...sustain the breakneck pace of Laugh-In. At times, the novelty of the show threatens to wear thin. Some of the jokes are too inside; some of this season's new bits, such as the recitation of old, out-of-context punch lines and the "Fun Couple" sketches, fail to work. Says Rowan: "When you take on a show that doesn't fill time, that doesn't come on with singers and dancers as a copout, that is nothing but comedy material-the well cannot remain constantly full. Eventually, we're going to run through this...
Broadway is so commercially minded, goes one prevailing myth, that it will not permit a playwright the creative right to fail. To judge by its seasonal multimillion-dollar losses, Broadway is about as uncommercial an enterprise as can be imagined, and the right to fail is honored more often than not. Ever since the success of Virginia Woolf in 1962, Edward Albee has exercised this right annually. Tiny Alice, The Ballad of the Sad Café, A Delicate Balance, Malcolm, Everything in the Garden, and now Box and Quotations from Mao Tse-tung represent the alarming deterioration of a formidable...