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...case anybody was wondering about some of the other British stage notables, why they were in the colonies-Broadway, that is-with The Right Honourable Gentleman, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Half a Sixpence, Inadmissible Evidence and Marat/Sade. Or they were making movies. Or they were doing television. Or they were-only briefly-between engagements...
...Congressional term of office will provoke reverberations of the old Jeffersonian belief that frequent elections are the best guarantee against tyranny. But in an age of mass communications and sophisticated means of sampling public opinion, annual or biennial elections are no longer necessary to determine the public will. The gentleman legislators of Jefferson's day could campaign at leisure between brief sessions; today's Congressmen have to steal time from heavy schedules in the capital to campaign strenuously in their districts...
Well, not too terrified. The ostrich swallows a transistor radio and becomes a feathered walkie-talkie, the elephant slurps up a gentleman's bath, and the zebra turns domestic. On balance, the kid himself might seem the worst behaved, but Zebra isn't that kind of bestiary. Producer-Director Ivan Tors, who made Rhino! and the Flipper series, views all fauna through globs of sentiment. In a rich and foamy climax...
Youngest Ever. Long forgotten by all but avid devotees of Victoriana, Dilke and his scandal were recently and rather carelessly reconstructed in a melodrama (The Right Honourable Gentleman) that ran a year and a half in London and is now maintaining a precarious life on Broadway. The tragedy deserves more responsible treatment, and this it has been given by Roy Jenkins, a political historian who is Minister of Aviation in Britain's Labor government. After a study of all available evidence, some of it never before made public, Jenkins concludes that Dilke was framed and finished...
These attitudes can be disconcerting. For example, he sees the success of the Western parliamentary system as dependent upon the existence of a responsible elite rather like a composite English gentleman-to whom he addresses a prose poem of admiration. He deplores oral contraceptives as "stealthy pills which encroach on human dignity and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." He classifies the "passion for ugliness and disfigurement" in modern art as a "danger far greater than depopulation by war." Liberals would call him a reactionary...