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...Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties sizzles in epigrams and bubbles with life for about another week at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. The Colonial is a superb playhouse, a child's conception of a theatre with gilt boxes and Michelangelo cherubs dancing on the ceiling. They've also got some $4.50 seats, and if you've missed the Tony winner for 1975--take your first chance and the Green Line down...
...Solicitor General for four years, Robert Bork may be remembered best for sacking Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973 on Richard Nixon's orders. Now Bork has job offers from seven gilt-edged law firms "and invitations to teach law at Chicago, Michigan, Princeton and Yale. Says he of the Saturday Night Massacre: "The people who have jobs to offer aren't troubled...
...businessmen, university faculty and former government officials, and has great influence in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. If the first 82 names on a list proposed by President Kennedy for staffing his State Department, 63 were members of the CFR.) Francis Burr is a partner in the old, gilt-edged law firm of Ropes & Gray, and director of several mutual funds and banks. Charles Slichter is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, one of the top ten university defense contractors. As a member of the research board of the graduate college at Illinois...
...Roman gravitas, public men in disgrace fell upon their swords. Today they fall upon their pens. Such impalings have been especially popular and profitable for the resigned, the indicted and the convicted of the Nixon Administration. Publishers were quick to confer gilt by association upon men like John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Charles Colson. Next to come is John Ehrlichman, who dropped out in some Paraguay of the mind to write a novel whose chief character is a "President Richard Monckton...
...Left to my own devices, I spent a bemused hour observing the Senate and the House of Representatives. The two chambers have recently been renovated, and the old red hangings and tobacco-stained rugs have been replaced by a delicate grey decor with hints here and there of imperial gilt ... Those few who had come to observe the democratic process seemed mostly to be simple country people who behaved-quite rightly-as if they were at the circus; they chewed tobacco, shelled peanuts, ate popped corn, a newly contrived delicacy with the consistency and, I should think, the flavor...