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...approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending that, at its best, releases the playgoer from Broadway's Imperial Theater...
...always, that fifth season-"mud" -oozed through Vermont and New Hampshire, where the coo of the mourning dove gave way to the growl of four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling unsuspecting travelers out of the region's annual goo. The 949 frugal residents of Plainfield, Vt., authorized a study to see if they should keep their dirt roads-potholes and all-instead of paving them with expensive, and unprofitable, asphalt...
...people of the North End and South Boston and Dorchester. He seems incapable of patronizing them. Although we see them as ignorant, fearful of change, bigoted, and often violent, their finer qualities--loyalty, pride, a sense of tradition, bravery--are also there. Scorn is reserved for the meddling "goo-goos," the knee-jerk liberals who vanish in crisis, the Brattle Street chic who, safely on the sidelines, their children in private schools, applaud Garrity's ruling. At times, Liberty's Chosen Home is devastating social history: the concerned group of clergymen unable to agree on a joint statement about...
...Gene Upshaw, his left arm ever cocked, "the Snake" ready to strike. Few quarterbacks have had a covey of receivers to rival Stabler's. Wide Receiver Fred Biletnikoff, 33, works the sideline like a 190-lb. Wallenda. His hands are liberally coated with Hold-Tite, but all the sticky goo in the world will not replace the 30 min. per day he spends tossing a football against a wall and snatching up the unpredictable rebounds. Cliff Branch, the other wide receiver, runs 100 yds. in 9.3 sec., which seems to be 9.3 sec. faster than Biletnikoff can cover the distance...
...storm-tossed waters off Massachusetts last week, 7.6 million gal. of oil slid slowly seaward. In the Delaware River, southwest of Philadelphia, 134,000 more gal. of deadly goo spread toward rich tidal marshes. In Los Angeles, the wreck of a blast-shattered tanker still lay smoldering at its berth. Suddenly, on East Coast and West, the U.S. was undergoing an ordeal...