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...tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will appear in future weeks to goad the ingratiating team of Morse and Peaker along their song-and-dance journey through courtship and marriage. That's Life should live, if not happily ever after, at least for the TV season...
...capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible. I do not deny that we love and respect most those professors who make the glorious attempt to reach other people in a profound way; but what...
...Gallup maintains that in his very first opinion sampling on gun control 34 years ago, 84% of the nation favored strong legislation. The figure has remained at or near that level ever since. Yet Congress has assiduously ignored such evidence of public opinion. John Kennedy's assassination did not goad Capitol Hill to act. There was a brief flurry, centering around Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's bill to ban the mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy...
Kennedy tried unsuccessfully to goad Hubert Humphrey into fighting directly in embattled Oregon and California, and the Vice President accused "some men"-meaning Kennedy-of "exploiting" the nation's problems to advance their own cause. "I do believe," Humphrey said, "there is such a thing as too much ambition...
...psychological impact of his kill-and-maim statement. "There wasn't any shoot-to-kill order," he said lamely. "That was a fabrication." In fact, Daley's tough new order still stood. Whether the "deadly force" he intends to apply in future rioting will serve as a goad or a preventive may well be tested in the summer ahead...