Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems can be more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure a fair shake for all. Still, distrust of government and belief in decentralization is a big new force. Nixon and others have spotted it. How it can be used by the parties and the candidates, who will be hurt and who will be helped, is far from clear. But the phenomenon offers...
Most white Harvard Summer School students are concerned about relating to black men and their problems. They have nurtured, painstakingly, a kit of liberal racial attitudes. Nevertheless, black summer school students speak of racism at Fair Harvard. And for a number of reasons, the blacks have made their own separate community in the Summer School...
...letter also attacks the Selective Service system itself, calling it "so hopelessly entangled that none of the reforms now recommended will make it fair...
...Caesar and Cleopatra is on so un-Shavian a wavelength that the original dialogue (nowhere close to the 80 per cent once required of Shaw's adapters) serves as Champagne to a gasoline engine. Songwriter-book writer Ervin Drake has made no try at the worshipful style of My Fair Lady: instead his idea is to set a romance in ancient Egypt and happily let it go at that. With the connivance of director Michael Benthall and designer Michael Annals, both of whom have their eyes in socket, Her First Roman is a snappy realization of this not awfully...
...credit, there are several first-rate tunes and some pretty fair lyrics in Her First Roman. I like a number called "Rome" for both elements, especially the following lyric: "Rome: I long to be at her side, a groom with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals for a home." And "Many Young Men From Now" has the added virtue of relevance, not only to the show but to the original play and to Cleopatra as Shaw conceived her. Drake would do well, however, to drop such hack-work as (from a song called "The Wrong Man"): "The world...