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...Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that to devour the dead, scavenged prey, it would often chew into it through the anus...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). As usual, utterly preposterous, but fun for that reason. In this installment. Agent Solo (Robert Vaughn) is ordered to destroy some germ-loaded missiles that are being used to goad the U.S. and the Soviet Union into atomic...
...nose counting overlooks one stubborn fact: bills still must get out of committee before those floor votes can be cast -and the committees are still considerably dominated by Southern Democrats. Not even the L.B.J. landslide is likely to make Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills like medicare, or goad Rules Chairman Howard Smith into smoothing the legislative path of liberal bills toward the House floor...
...year. They know, from their interest and application, how they are going to do on an exam even before they enter. And they are correct. When one Strives and succeeds, the competitive excitement of examinations is very pleasant; when one Strives and does poorly, it is a merciless goad to improve...
...last concert in Cambridge to match this one in quality of intent and execution was given last spring; the program of music by Pierre Boulez. Like that one, this was sponsored by the Department of Music, one suspects, gratefully, under the goad of Leon Kirchner. There is no telling what will happen to musicologists if they leave the door open to superior applied music--the kind one can actually hear. But on the basis of Monday's more than welcome concert, one can assure the Department there is a mob at the door waiting to listen. Concerts such as Monday...