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...sure, Utopia has not arrived. The sores of segregation and poverty still fester in many parts of the U.S. despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...raised by the children, the props are obviously first-rate, but the people are even better. Beautiful Carolyn Jones plays the mother, Morticia, with a chilling verve that should make any dead-blooded man want to share a bier with her. Her husband Gomez (John Astin) and Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) are quite sufficiently insane, but one could research the annals of television and not discover the likes of her butler Lurch, who is played by Ted Cassidy, 6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs., with a massive, embalmed face and a deft touch on the parlor spinet...
When he approached the Hasty Pudding, a pretxel of a man jumped out from the passageway and began playing a harmonica. But the man shivered so much that Fester could not tell he was playing "Joy to the World"; it sounded like "Home on the Range." Fester pulled his scarf up around his ears...
...Christmas," barked the man, between snatches of music. "Mer' Christmas." He blocked Fester's way. He put out his cupped hand. Fester ran up the street; it was so cold he needed to run to keep warm. At the corner he looked back and saw no one. Through the window of the Bick a girl with long, straight hair (a swimming instructor in a Dorchester Y) watched him cross Mass...
...Christmas," he thought, "what jollity and merriment you bring to Harvard Square." He walked faster, trying to keep warm. "What camaraderie and playful amity suffuses the air as you approach," he thought again, trying to phrase it another way. But his own creative efforts rarely satisfied Fester J. Pupous '65, and Christmas was no time for a relaxation of standards. He went back to his single and finished All for Love...